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an old organ
what would a old valve hammond organ
fetch these days if i were to sell. thanks john |
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possibly as much as an old car
"D MARSHALL" wrote in message u... what would a old valve hammond organ fetch these days if i were to sell. thanks john |
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D MARSHALL wrote: what would a old valve hammond organ fetch these days if i were to sell. thanks john Model number, please. It'll be on a plate inside. Anything with it? Tone cabinet, Leslie speaker? Does it start with two switches or one? Lord Valve Expert |
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model number is - L-111
"Lord Valve" wrote in message ... D MARSHALL wrote: what would a old valve hammond organ fetch these days if i were to sell. thanks john Model number, please. It'll be on a plate inside. Anything with it? Tone cabinet, Leslie speaker? Does it start with two switches or one? Lord Valve Expert |
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D MARSHALL wrote: model number is - L-111 The L-100 was the baby of the Hammond tonewheel line. The second two digits in the model number tell you what kind of furniture the guts are mounted in - French Provincial, Modern, etc. All of these organs are collectively referred to as "L-100s," as there are no differences (other than the cabinet) between any of them. It was essentially designed for housewives. It had a 15-W amp on board, running two 12" speakers. It's a spinet, with two 44-note manuals and a single octave of bass pedals. An L-100 can be made to sound tolerable (barely) through a Leslie cabinet, but it lacks the balls of the full-size consoles. If the furniture is in good shape, you might be able to sell it for $250. (I'm being optimistic here.) Otherwise, I've seen people give these away. A good source of vintage parts - Hammond used quality stuff. If the tubes are original, many of them will be Mullards. The speakers may be Jensens. Lord Valve Expert |
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thanks for that.
john "Lord Valve" wrote in message ... D MARSHALL wrote: model number is - L-111 The L-100 was the baby of the Hammond tonewheel line. The second two digits in the model number tell you what kind of furniture the guts are mounted in - French Provincial, Modern, etc. All of these organs are collectively referred to as "L-100s," as there are no differences (other than the cabinet) between any of them. It was essentially designed for housewives. It had a 15-W amp on board, running two 12" speakers. It's a spinet, with two 44-note manuals and a single octave of bass pedals. An L-100 can be made to sound tolerable (barely) through a Leslie cabinet, but it lacks the balls of the full-size consoles. If the furniture is in good shape, you might be able to sell it for $250. (I'm being optimistic here.) Otherwise, I've seen people give these away. A good source of vintage parts - Hammond used quality stuff. If the tubes are original, many of them will be Mullards. The speakers may be Jensens. Lord Valve Expert |
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Depends on the model. The small B3 may be worth quite a bit but the bigger
models may only be worth $50. At one time a B3 in good condition was very sought after and with a Leslie resale at a dealer could be over $2000. A friend of mine paid $50 at a tag sale for a huge 2 manual Hammond with full pedal board and bench. It had a problem but I suspect if it were collectable it would have sold and not been a tag sale leftover. A wonderful instrument but very heavy and very big. Seems that most people are happy with a small "synthetic" keyboard these days. There is a Bluebook for organs but it may not reflect the real going price. Try calling a few dealers and ask what your model number would cost if they had one because you were thinking of buying one. |
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AIKEN DAVE wrote: Depends on the model. The small B3 may be worth quite a bit but the bigger models may only be worth $50. The B-3 was not "small." I know, I own three of them. It weighs ~400 pounds. The only organs Hammond made which were larger were the G-100 (a church model with no drawbars; it featured regular pipe-organ type stops and toe pistons, and had a 32-note AGO style radiating concave pedal clavier) and the RT-3, which is a B-3 with a 32-note concave radiating pedalboard. At one time a B3 in good condition was very sought after and with a Leslie resale at a dealer could be over $2000. You can't *touch* a B-3 for that kind of scratch. A Leslie alone is fetching ~$1500 these days. A friend of mine paid $50 at a tag sale for a huge 2 manual Hammond with full pedal board and bench. It had a problem but I suspect if it were collectable it would have sold and not been a tag sale leftover. A wonderful instrument but very heavy and very big. Seems that most people are happy with a small "synthetic" keyboard these days. There is a Bluebook for organs but it may not reflect the real going price. Try calling a few dealers and ask what your model number would cost if they had one because you were thinking of buying one. Stick to car stereos or whatever it is you know about. Hammonds ain't your thing. Lord Valve Expert |
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