improv@... writes:
>>Wow, what a beauty! Even if it doesn't make a sound, the flashing lights
oughta be worth whatever you paid! Man, that just looks like a totally
crazy instrument. Would love to hear what it sounds like!<<
I have to admit, I bought it almost as much for its impressive looks as for
its sound. Back in the late 70s early 80s when they were in production, a
factory built one cost more than $40,000. I picked this one up for $2500.
It is a crazy instrument. In fact it is quite hard to understand a lot of
it. I seems that everything affects everything else. You can push a switch
and hear no change in sound, but that is because you have to enable about 3
other things and pull out a drawbar to hear the change.
>>I too am a recent recipient of an organ transplant: a few weeks ago I was
given a Hammond M3, 1957 vintage spinet-style tonewheel organ.<<
My family inheritted an M103 with a Leslie when my grandfather died when I
was young. But those little spinet models just don't seem to have the heavy
full sound of a B3 as far as I can remember. So it might not be a real close
comparison.
-Elhardt