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Subject: Re: Hammond on eBay...

From: "Bernie Kornowicz" <kornowicz@...>
Date: 2003-07-25

This site seems to be the official Hammond site:
http://hammondsuzuki.com

Anyone using Native Instruments B4?

Bernie
(missing my old B3)

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "mellotrongirl"
<mellotrongirl@h...> wrote:
> Nice unit! And going cheap!
>
> Reminds me of a 1936 Model A I saw in a Salvation Army thrift
store
> in Walla Walla, WA back around 1995. It was $400 and came with one
> of the first Leslies ever built--one of the ultra-rare units that
> spun counter-clockwise and was the size of a large refridgerator.
> The whole set-up was beat up and scuffed pretty bad, but
everything
> worked perfectly. What a great restoration project if only I had
the
> time (and space!) and the means to get it to my house two hours'
> drive away. As it was, the rig sat in the store for nearly a month
> until it was sold to a local church.
>
> If only that same scenerio would drop into my lap today.
>
> Too bad Hammond doesn't have a homepage (understandable). At least
> there are collectors sites all over the place and active trading
> going on. There are dying Hammonds all over the intermountain
> Pacific Northwest--partly because service techs have to come in
from
> Portland, Spokane or Boise, and won't visit until they have at
least
> three or four other repairs in the neighborhood.