Mellotronists

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.