I can just wheel up and play! I CAN operate the expression pedal, and I also play drums (classic vintage Rogers R-380 set, 6 piece pearl white, PAiSTe 2oo2 “red logo” cymbals) using a special heel-operated bass drum pedal, so I have some function. I am paraplegic in a wheelchair, so I will be playing without bass pedals, cannot use them at all, but they are available for others who might want to use them when jamming with my band. She is in good condition, save for some scratches, a little dust, etc, internally she is like new! Hasn’t been run since about 1996, but she fired right up! She has a Leslie 22 R cabinet, and I want to make it a 2-speed like the 122 eventually. I went to the folder fellow’s house last Wednesday to pick her up. I live in upstate New York, USA, and just acquired my dream organ, a 1963 (determined tonight using the same formula as you did Hammond C-3! OH MY GOD-I finally have a real tone wheel, and one of the 3 best at that! It was donated to the place where I do my lighting displays in Schenectady, NY, The Edison Tech Center, and then passed on to me. Here’s some more pictures from a few years back that was used in an advertisement to sell the organ locally in 2015. The Leslie socket had been rewired to accept a 220V power connection to power a Leslie set up to European specifications. One speaker has a ribbed cone and is voiced for the low end of the organ’s tone spectrum and the other one has a smooth cone and carries the mid tones.Īs far as I can tell everything is original, with basic maintenance done, like replacing the original power cord, and the addition of a Leslie kit (6122 with line out written on the added panel with the line-out and 6-pin Leslie 122 connector, labeled as ‘Leslie 428-13 Tremolo Control Terminal Box’, which is mounted inside the organ), half-moon switch (Chorale / Tremolo) and a switch to toggle between the internal speakers or the Leslie, or both.
Hammond used Heppner, Rola, Jensen, and Magnavox alnico speakers as tuned pairs. 285315 would be a Rola speaker made in the 15th week of 19×3 (you have to figure out which decade using other information).
The coding scheme for the speakers is XXXYWW where XXX is the company EIA code (Jensen = 220, Rola = 285, Heppner = 575), Y is the last digit of the production year, and WW is the production week. They are Rola speakers, produced in the 15 th week of 1963. Speaker serial AO-23232-0 18658 285315 shows a ‚3‘ for the last digit of the year. The serial number, 22535, slots in between two other organs on the tonewheel general list that were both identified as 1963 production units.
Engraved drawbars are used on organs built from 1969