Newbie - want to join a Hammond and a Rhodes piano in holy matrimony

[monkeyman]

Hi all,</p>


I'm a newbie to the world of organs, but I find it very exciting. Have been playing guitar for nearly 20 years, but organs are only a recent interest.
It started with a ~1960 Miller English Organ from the UK. I was told they were good quality for their time and type (individual oscillator for each note, etc) so I picked one up for nothing hoping to learn a bit about valves and hoping to restore it. It's in pretty good shape now, but could still do with some improvement. While I was fixing it up, I learned about Hammonds and tonewheels. The concept sounded fantastic and I wanted one. Before you know it, a nearby church was getting rid of a problematic Hammond L100 and its Leslie. No-one in the congregation wanted it so I made a donation to the church of $100 and walked away with a cool new project. That project is still waiting for me since my wife had our first child recently (I hope to start on it this summer and expect to be on here a bit more often). Though I am using the Leslie for my Miller organ, speakers only, I haven't dared to try to get the motors running yet. </p>


My query here doesn't relate to the above organs though. It has to do with a friends Hammond. He has a nastly little Hammond Cougar. It has its own speaker with a Leslie effect (I don't remember if it has rotating speakers or just simulates them somehow). He just borrowed a Fender Rhodes piano off a friend of his and wants to feed that into his Hammond 'Leslie' speaker (Man, I want a Rhodes piano now!). I said I would have a look for him, and while searching the internet for a schematic of the Hammond Cougar, I found this forum. I suppose I should firstly ask if anyone has a schematic for the Hammond Cougar (or at least the speaker section). And does anyone have any tips or things I should look for when doing my preliminary investigation (I am going around this week to have a look at his instruments)?</p>


I am going on a bit so I will leave it there. I might follow this post up with some other questions as I (hopefully) learn more.
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Thanks.</p>

[crossyinoz]

Re: Newbie - want to join a Hammond and a Rhodes piano in holy matrimony



G'day,</P>


The only Cougarsold in Australia was model 7222, released in 1973,built by Nihon Hammond, Japan. It had what Hammond called "Acoustic Tremolo" which is, essentially a Leslie clone containing an 8" speaker.</P>


For reasons that should now seem obvious I wouldn't recommend that your mate try to pump a Rhodes through it.</P>


However all is not lost. The good people at CBS Musical Instruments who at the time just happened to own Fender &amp; Electromusic/Leslie built a Leslie product designed just for electric piannas a la Rhodes, Wurly, etc. Models 60M/60S, is a 2 cabinet master/slave setup, 100W, electro-mechanical space generators, finished in vinyl just like the Rhodes. Keep an eye on eBay, Trading Post or 2nd hand music shops depending on your location.</P>


Cheers,</P>


Ian</P>