but we have to accept it, a lot of new Hamoond- like organs just sound as they are the real thing! Benjie/Philippines. 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

IMO, John Hanert deserves the main design credit. LH had the ideas and was a great salesman.

Hammond wasn't the only manufacturer of electronic equipment who used that awful foam. The difference is that Hammond's gear has usually outlasted all the other stuff.

@James_Bowie my Wurlitzer 200a contained that foam too. But in a place where it couldn't harm any components.

Give me one pls!!!!!

@@charlie.pentatree #metoo

It is said that Lord had an RMI 368 Electra-Piano custom built into a B3....I'm sure you can check and find out.

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Yes, my reaction as well ...until put into context with the typical "church organ" found in a church previously ....which was a PIPE ORGAN....and the mention of "small auditoriums" and "second organs for churches". These organs could be moved very easily by "experienced movers". They were "self-contained" is probably the point. .

Well that was Hammond M3, compared to C3, it really is compact and light weight.

That's the problem ...no company owner would ever allow the amount of detailed processes to be done. Cost is far too high even with the lowest cost labour. Company ownership is only interested in making a profit ....nothing else ....otherwise there is no point. Just imagine the selling price of something that takes several hundred hours to make ...then add the materials costs ....then final product shipping costs ....and then the profit mark-up. The point being, to your comment, everything Hammond did was done "in-house" where everything was fully controlled. No one does this anymore. As much is "out-sourced" to keep capital costs as low as possible. Now the "detail" is lost or completely gone. .

@@taxicamel It's a sad state of affairs.

Yavol mein heir.......I concur. That and the leslie. For 2 guys that hated each other they sure went hand in hand!

You are sooo right!!!

I have a 1963 C-3 that came from Boosey & Hawkes and I am very grateful that the build quality still does it after 60 years of more or less intense use.

The M type spinet organs came out in the late 1940s. The spinet version of the BV and CV. In 1950, the M-2 was introduced, as the spinet version of the B-2 and C-2 0rgans. The M-3 was introduced in 1955, corresponding to the B-3 and C-3.

No gloves, no masks, filters, security glasses.... no nothing...

They were spraying in a special booth with a powerful exhaust blower that would draw the fumes in a direction away from the person spraying and exhaust them out of the building, which is why you don't see any cloud of fumes. That and air dried lacquer is not nearly as toxic as modern chemically hardened paint coatings. Nobody was suffering any harm. They painted cars like this too during the 60s and 70s using downdraft booths. The floor of the booth was open grating and the blower would draw the air straight down. The painters wore no masks, the fumes never got above the painters knees because of the powerful downward draft.

I had an Xk-3 and it was fantastic. Now I have the SKx and Sk-1 and they are also amazing!

Definitely before 1958 since they discontinued the quatrefoil design on the C style console organs after that

@@hammondc366 It looks like no earlier than mid 50s going by the the cars in the plant parking lot.

Next time the chapel is open (under roof work, again) I'll take a look. My Grandma lived in Colorado Springs as well, so when we were here, I learned on her B-3.

@@dontroutman8232 I can't find an exact date, but probably in the Mid-Late 1970s Allen got awarded the Military Chapel Organ contract away from Hammond.

I'll go with on your knowledge of the subject. They were doing a full restoration last year, on the pipes, and parts, of both the upper and lower organs.

@@dontroutman8232 So I take it you've either Seen this Film or are familiar with the location where it was shot?

@@craigbrowning9448 my pop was a '63 Grad. I've lived in Colorado Springs for over 40 years now.

Well..... The Tel harmonium was actually nearly the same principal on a much larger scale.

I agree. I have a 1956 B3 and 122 Leslie and the Viscount clone. I only bought the Viscount cause at the time my B3 was down and I needed to record B3 tracks. Even with viscount through my Leslie it had a tiny sound in comparison to the B3. I had to avoid upper register on viscount in order to hide that I wasn’t playing B3. The B3 is back up thanks to an amazing tech who travelled far to help me. Steve Reist is the one to get if you are as fortunate as I was.