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Im selling my 1960s Hammond M-Series Tone Wheel Organ with a solid state Leslie 760 Rotating Speaker Cabinet. The M-100 series Hammonds were used on The Whiter Shade Of Pale And Small Faces Records. Samplers are great but nothing beats the sound of the real thing. No postage, obviously! Youll need a van and an able-bodied assistant or two. Unfortunately, or otherwise, ill health prevents me from carrying heavy items. Thats my story and Im sticking to it.This is a proper rocknroll relic. The organ has a road worn painted finish and has been split for easier transportation. The internal speakers still work and can be switched on or off via a switch on the organ.The onboard reverb has been disabled and the bass pedals are long gone. Like I said, this is a rock and soul organ. I would suggest using a reverb pedal. The original Hammond reverb is infamously bad.The custom built preamp drives the Leslie, controls the volume, treble and bass, and switches the rotary speaker speed from slow to fast. Using the preamp you can run any instrument including guitar through the Leslie. Heres some info off the web:Well known M-series players include Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, John Paul Jones from Led Zep, Jon Lord from Deep Purple and Francis Monkman of Curved Air as well as many others.The M-series took the tonewheel technology of the bulkier previous models, refined it and scaled it down in 1960 to make smaller ‘spinet’ models that were more appropriate for the growing ‘home market’. There were various models in the range that had different cabinets – for example, the M100 had ornate, carved legs that were appropriate for the home and church market whilst the M102 had a more spartan cabinet that was better suited to gigging. All had the same basic specifications, however: 2 x 44-note keyboards and a 13-note pedalboard, two sets of drawbars (one for each keyboard), six presets and ‘touch percussion’ effects (available on tabs above the upper keyboard manual), split vibrato, vibrato chorus, built-in spring reverb and speakers and a swell (volume) pedal.As was typical with Hammonds then (and now), the sound was (is) best heard fed through a Leslie rotary speaker although the M-Series’ internal speakers certainly made it more self-contained and suitable for home and church use (and some jazz and rock musicians did use the internal speakers for recordings and live use). It was possible to order the M102 with a split cabinet where the upper keyboard section could be separated from the lower speaker/pedal section to make transportation easier – a far cry from the hernia-inducing B/C3! But the underlying tonewheel sound generating technology in the M-series was essentially the same as its predecessors.
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Category: Musical Instruments:Keyboards and Pianos:Organs
Location: Haywards Heath