If you are handy with a soldering iron and a screw driver you can add foldback to an M3. I did it to mine. Yeah, it's a pain, but it's worth it. Good video!
On the M3's you can put the Vibrato/Chorus SW. to VIB and then put the HI/LOW SW. right in the center of the 2 settings and you can get a pseudo Leslie tone.
Another little talked about organ that has vasts amount of character and potential in the music world is the Wurlitzer electrostatic reed organ. The reeds are not heard, but are used only as a means to produce the frequency. I highly recommend reading this article:
If you are handy with a soldering iron and a screw driver you can add foldback to an M3. I did it to mine. Yeah, it's a pain, but it's worth it. Good video!
deerfish3000 2 weeks ago
To continue;
Hammond used his clock motors in the tone gen because of the constant speed; they are the only organ that never go out of tune.
Early models (A, AB, BC, BV, CV, etc) require a Tone Cab to function, as the organ's amp is powered by the cab.
C3, B3, are exactly the same internally. A100 series has the same amp and TG, but adds internal speaker and reverb.
The -2 series organs are the same except they lack percussion.
Good post generally; we need to keep up interest in Hammonds
bobmann107 1 month ago
There was no "M1". Only M, M2, M3 (which is pictured)
There are several different Tone Generators used, 96,81, and 12 (X-66) and of those, there were several tonewheel configurations.
Foldback is absent on all spinets, present on consoles.
Leslie wanted to partner with Hammond, but Hammond refused. Only after Hammond passed did the Company use a Leslie
All consoles after 1964 had foam in the keyboard that erodes resistance wires in the keyboard. Type of insulation was never an issue
bobmann107 1 month ago
???
The values are FOOTAGES
i.e.
8' (eight foot drawbar).
IT IS NOT 8" (eight inches).
There are 96 rotating wheels in the tone generator,
-but ONLY 91 generate 'tone', (via electro-magnetic induction)
Two octave padalboard (A,B,C series etc.)
-continued on p.42
siderbam 3 months ago
@siderbam
Good points Siderbam. Thanks!
Pete
PeteBuchwald 3 months ago
On the M3's you can put the Vibrato/Chorus SW. to VIB and then put the HI/LOW SW. right in the center of the 2 settings and you can get a pseudo Leslie tone.
Another little talked about organ that has vasts amount of character and potential in the music world is the Wurlitzer electrostatic reed organ. The reeds are not heard, but are used only as a means to produce the frequency. I highly recommend reading this article:
Wurlitzer Electrostatic Organs by Eric Larson
& Everett Orgatron patents
paulj0557 11 months ago