One of its main sonic features is the “key-click,” a transient that occurs upon note onset, caused by the mechanical bouncing of the nine electric contacts actuated during each key press. I bet I can find some local woodworkers willing to part with some cash for that.The Hammond organ is one of earliest electronic instruments and is still used widely in contemporary popular music. I'm hoping the wood is mahogany or something equally valuable. I have one friend who's a guitarist who I've offered one of the rebuilt amps in exchange for the help. I'm trying to find a friend with a truck who's available for the 2 hour trip and willing to help. I emailed the guy asking for some more information. So I may end up with 3+ amps out of this deal! I don't know what all is in the M3. I've seen some of the stuff on converting those. I had forgotten about the reverb amps being separate. There's so much stuff going on inside of it, it would be impossible to do anything clean and safe. It would be too much work to try to rewire it. Reuse the transformers and some of the tubes, but otherwise gut it. With the main chassis, my plan was just to gut it and start over. From the photo I estimated it was probably a 15" speaker, but after a bit of research, looks like it probably is a 12" Jensen. There is enough wire there to last you for a long time. I think this is the real gem in this organ,not the main chassis.Īs Enzo said, save the wire bundles. There is plenty of info out there on modding/rebuilding the AO-35. This has an EZ81 rectifier and is also a candidate for rebuild, but the AO-35 has more robust trannies. A newer model will have an AO-44 reverb amp and this is an amp that has two 6GW8 tubes which have a triode and output pentode in each bottle. This amp is much more mod/rebuild friendly than the main chassis for sure. If this is an older model, it will have an AO-35 reverb amp in it that has two 12AX7s and two EL84s plus a 5Y3 rectifier tube. The main chassis does not process the reverb this is accomplished by another smaller amp. You should check for the reverb amp on this organ. The three tubes on the right go through coils for signal processing and are pretty useless for guitar. There is a lot of extra tone shaping circuitry on the main chassis of this organ.
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