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Louisville craigslist 2/5/10 " Hammond electromechanical tonewheel organ with built in Leslie speaker." sale-ccg5y-1587658867@craigslist.org Picture has 3 octaves and a fifth per manual, color drawbars.  $175

 

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Hammond H182 1968
Ensoniq EPS,Steinway 40" console 1941,Sohmer 39" console 1982

I would be cautious in labeling a Hammond a TWG organ if there is color on the controls   Most of the color features were introduced after the change to LSI circuitry.

Organ is a T-500 TWG spinet

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Keith
Hammond 340 Elegante

It's a T500, yup, it's a tonewheel with a drum scanner vibrato, solid state preamps and amp instead of tube/valve preamp.

It depends on the area whether it's a bad or good price. Some areas give these away free while selling M100s or M3s for less than $100. 

Mine sounds great for rock after heavy mods, originally it sounded extremely pure... clean, the very highs and lows are filtered out, as is the drawbar crosstalk.

I've just read in another thread that hammond did this universally in their later builds, the older consoles were a bit raw and grungy.  

If you want to hear a modified T500, here's mine, without added overdrive but pushed to the limits:

http://cid-0d7741cc63af1adc.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/God%20rest%20ye%20-merry%20gentlemen5.mp3

or with distortion added: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvqDUBcteN0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSXI5hXkg50 

I can find some earlier recordings before I really got modding if you'd rather hear it more original!

Cheers!

-Brendon 

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1970 Brendon T. Wright
1959 C3
1975 T-500
1992 Korg 01W/fd
1994 G&L S-500

http://louisville.craigslist.org/msg/1587658867.html

that's your listing.... interesting, it may even be the same cabinet as mine!

Mine didn't have the tape deck though.  

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1970 Brendon T. Wright
1959 C3
1975 T-500
1992 Korg 01W/fd
1994 G&L S-500

Actually Indy, I didn't look to see who was asking!!

You've already seen those vids, just be wasting your bandwidth! 

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1970 Brendon T. Wright
1959 C3
1975 T-500
1992 Korg 01W/fd
1994 G&L S-500

The organ on Craigslist is down to $1.  I don't have a truck, it is not worth $100 to rent one. 

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Hammond H182 1968
Ensoniq EPS,Steinway 40" console 1941,Sohmer 39" console 1982