Hammond Concorde organ and Janssen spinet piano

A church said they would give me these instruments if I could take them away that week as they were getting a new digital piano.
I had to rent a Storage unit for them as I did not have a real good place for them at home...hope to get them home soon.
I found out through the internet that this actually uses integrated circuits for tone generation and not the traditional mechanical mechanism. I thought since it had the drawbars and black preset keys that it was a tonewheel unit but apparently not. It has a built-in Leslie.
Also they gave me a spinet piano which works well, and I play Hard Hearted Hannah on it. They don't let you use any electrical outlets at the storage unit! SO I couldn't demonstrate the Hammond.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hammond
• Concorde
• organ
• integrated
• circuit
• Janssen
• spinet
• piano
• storage
• unit

[Maxxarcade]

Too bad the don't have power out there...

Aside from being out of tune, that piano has nice tone for a spinet. It should fix up real nice. Great song too!

[retrochad]

I really want to get this stuff out of the storage unit ASAP...they specifically prohibited plugging in electrical appliances in the lease! The piano action works very well. It's not too far off pitch so it should tune easily.

[Trance88]

cool. The sound of that piano reminds me of old wild west town bars.

[retrochad]

Thanks! I've always liked that honky tonk sound.

[W4KSR]

Do yourself a favor, and get a can of DeOxit. You'll most likely need to clean the edge connectors of the circuit boards in the organ. If not, you'll hear static crashes resembling a thunderstorm, or you might have parts of the organ go dead. That's the worst problem those organs had, were those connectors. It's nicknamed "LSI Disease".

[retrochad]

Thanks for your suggestions...I haven't worked on a solid state hammond until this one but have lots of experience with the tonewheel models. I got a quick test of it at the church and it had some noise so I will make sure to do a contact cleaning.

[apostolic2010]

i HATE DIS ORGAN. I HAVE TO PLAY IT AT CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. I LIKE B3 SO MUCH BETTER

[TOM50518]

i have the same organ hammond concorde.i have all tne factory service manuals

on it .i have it hook uo tp a leslie 3300 .sounds real nice.

[he214abc]

you are lucky man

[TheNorthernSoulKing]

I am getting this exact organ. Can I make it sound like a B3?

[JimButler1234567890]

Just to clarify, the Hammond Concorde is NOT mechanically generated.. It is MDD generated, with (if I'm not mistaken) 480 divider/keyers.

MDD is an acronym for Multi-Derivitive Divider, which is essentially Top Octave Synthisis.

[LeviMan2001]

@retrochad WOAH! Careful, if your drawbars are plastic, DeOxit will eat them within a couple years.

[patsaxon]

This was one of the very first electronic organ with LSI (Large Scale integrated) circuits. Hammond went to using transistors in the late 1960's incorporating them along with the Tone Wheel generators. The Concord was developed in 1973, with no tone wheel as tone wheel generators were replaced with LSI oscillators.

[Xerox6085I]

No no no!  Use Caig DeOxit Spray followed by Caig Pro-Cold never use anything abrasive.

[Xerox6085I]

You afraid of learning new things? lol The Concorde can be a nightmare to service, but when they play correctly it has a lot of toys for a (rolling in the isles and swinging from the chandeliers) Gospel Service...

[samuraininjaXxX]

yeah um is that piano tuned?

it sounds honkey tonk and usually honkey tonk means its untuned...

[mrbrandon71]

I need one! I"m a gifted ear player send it to me.....