Outstanding restoration, documentation and saving a rare piece of Hammond history !! I still have my B-3 bought new in '70. Gigged thousands of times. Did the same woodwork restoration to better than new six years ago. Put a Trek reverb in when that came out. Have a '65 RT-3 / AGO in mint shape, as I miss playing a '31 Aeolian Skinner pipe organ I had lessons on long ago. Love the music. Restoring a '46 C-2 now. Smooth drawbars, new caps & resistors, Trek reverb, woodwork stripped. Fixed reverb from 6x9 speakers in a 122RV Leslie don't cut it. The Trek reverb in the Hammond is perfect. Your video lit an urgency for me to finish her ( the C-2) !!
I played one {1938 Hammond Model E Concert Organ} at Bibleway Temple Church of Detroit, MI. First thought, "what the hell, presets shaped like the old typewriter keyboard!!!" An absolutely marvelous sound!!!
What a monster! All man made! The multitude of wires screwable! Congrats! You've made a spectacular restauration project as this gorgeous organ needs! Good find - Thanks to share it with us!...
Damn!! What a great job!! Your friend must be really proud! It’s so great to see such a machine, wonderful but beaten with age, get some tlc! I hope it lives another 80 years
It's balm for the soul to witness a restoration of a rare old Hammond that is done with so much dedication and love. Thank you for sharing your experiences through this video, it's really appreciated. I didn't know a thing about the model E, I only saw an old picture once somewhere online but that's it. The cabinet of the organ is probably the most beautiful of any Hammond. I'm a big C3 fan (the mid-late 50's model with the quaterfoils) but the E is even more beautiful. Also nice playing in the end, great work on those bass pedals :-).
What a journey! WOW! Such a beautiful job. I also noticed around 20:00 the dollies. LOL Those are exactly the same ones I had back in the..... (cough) YEARS AGO for my Hammond. LOL I still have a bad back carrying that danged thing around. LOL Oh, the results on the pedal board got my heart beating fast! Just beautiful! What a wonderful restoration!
Congratulations on such a wonderful restoration! It’s great to see that another early Hammond survives. Great performance at the end as well. As the previous post states, I wish you were my neighbor as well!
The reward for all of us who love Hammond Instruments is the joy of seeing a young musicians play ”In The Is Joy” as the conclusion. Thank you for the video and be very proud of your accomplishment. And most of all thank you for securing the future of live musicians by encouraging Matt Luca to express his passion for the organ. God Bless you ALL. Posted by a life long organist and lover of Hammonds who began my career with a Hammond BC in 1965.
I used to have a Hammond E, for about 11 years from 2000-2011. It came up when I had met Robert Martin, who led the Hammond organ society out of Little Falls, New Jersey. He wanted to get me a B3, but this materialized. My mentor, a church organist heavily active in the Hudson Valley, jockeyed for me to grab it because of its A. G. O. features. It shipped with its own tone cabinet, but Robert gave me a gratis Leslie 31H speaker and the number for his technician to have the organ cleaned out and upgraded to connect with the 31H. Through the intervening years, the E became more important to my aforementioned mentor than me. He used to practice on it constantly. When he passed away, I knew that I should try to find a home for this organ with a musician who could properly care for it. (If it was an RT-3, I may have thought twice.) I was blown away to receive a bid from a Long Island resident seeking this precise combination of the E and a Leslie 31H. For my sense of duty and honor, it made more sense for this organ to go to a player who would use it and care for it then just for me to keep it and let it collect dust.
thats funny you mentioned Bob, and showed his shop there- he and his wife are wonderful people.... i got two 31H Leslies from him that needed restoring, and they are coming along nicely... it was a real pleasure driving up and meeting them.
As someone who loves watching vintage videos from British and Australian TV. I recognized the E as the model of Hammond used by Jerry Allen, who was a consistent presence on early British commercial TV, particularly on the midday show on ATV called "Lunch Box." Of course, Allen was playing popular music (using the vibrato settings already on there, not a Leslie), but the console design, including the buttons for the pre-sets, were immediately recognized by me when I started watching this video.
good job, thanks for taking your time and your patience in the restoration of this historic instrument very time consuming, i know because i have spent countless hours working on my own hammonds. congratulations.
Magnificent! This was a thoroughly enjoyable video and very good of you to acknowledge those who assisted in helping you find parts, etc. Boy the memories!!!! Two buddies of mine were members of the Hammond Organ Society back in the day. I enjoyed listening to them play while I would accompany on my clarinet or bassoon! So unreal to come across this as I was reminiscing about those childhood days when nerds like my buddies and I would play music and thought it was really cool! Great times!
What an admirable spirit behind this huge amount of work which had to be done! This was fascinating to watch and I thank you for sharing this experience with the rest of the world! Simply great!
This is a superb example of respect for, and dedication to, tradition and craftsmanship. Thank you for your contribution to beauty in form and function.
Really great job and video! I was thrilled to hear the Paul Hindemith Sonate II played on the Model E!!! I played that as pre-service music at my wedding, back in 1987!! (I had someone else play the processional and recessional, though!).
At 6:00 I HAD to give this video a LIKE. This guy is a GREAT GREAT GREAT MAN!!! Since this very moment I trusted you. I love vintage organs and keyboards. Greetings from Argentina.
Great repertory choices and performance, Matt Luca, particularly the Hindemith! I practiced on a concert Hammond in high school (it wasn't an E; it had single expression and the pedal division had some push buttons including two 32's. Thank you for providing such an enjoyable tour of this particular interesting venture in American organ history.
Your E is pretty cool! Closest Hammond I had to the E was an RT-2. It had 8 large pad switches on the right panel. Love the sardine can inside, mine had that two, and the open can key was still on it.
Wonderful workmanship! As a pipe organ builder myself, you did a marvelous job on your instrument. My thoughts about the Hammond organ: knowing how the tone wheel mechanism works, it would be expensive to do, but an extra mechanism to mixture ranks would've been fantastic. You could build in pitch breaks, AND simultaneously build not only the number of ranks for the mixture, you could also vary the amount of power within each rank. Oh my, if I had the time!
The short answer is: yes, but it would require a substantial amount of modifications, and you would lose some original functionality of the E. It's easier to simply get an RT3.
Great job. You made that organ look new again. I also have a model E, with the same Hammond tone cabinet. It is in good shape, but could use some TLC. I dont have the time now to take on the job. Mine also has one dead note. I plan to do the Trek note replacement mod. Everything else on mine works. I really should sell my E to someone that has the time to restore it. John Jacob
In particular it is the second One imported from America in separated pieces and assembled by the company Microtecnica in Turin, the biggest italian electronic Company in the 30s and 40s...
Hi Joe, I was amazed by this video, I wish I had the skill and patience. I have a number of B's I'd like to restore but I know my limitations. I would love to out some chrome drawbars on one of my organs. I assume all Chromes were ratchet? How did you convert them to smooth?
HAMMONDS WERE FOR CHURCHES TO PLAY HYMNS. I'm so sick of looking at everyone using Hammonds for jazz as well as pounding on the keys (Corey). I have a Hammond and wouldn't pair it with a Leslie if you paid me. Hammond hated Leslie. I wanted to ThankYou so much for staying true to the Spirit of who designed these. The music as you are talking is true. Watch any original sales films. I forgive you for using a Leslie.
Thank you. Me too. I never understood why this "instrument," and goofy sounds/tones would find its way into other genres of music. Thank you as well, for hating the Leslie bullshit. That dude wanted to recreate the nasty, harsh, spooky sounds of a theater organ's tremulants (disgusting). That's the reason I will not listen to almost anything with (what I call) a Leslie organ (since Leslie took credit for [later] shaping its sound). Hard rock, black gospel especially. If you take the time to read Hammond's biography (which I did), you'll learn/see why he did not like Donald Leslie (a troll and had the wrong idea, for the electric organ). Use a provided tone cabinet instead. With the right drawbar settings (on any model), with all other crap off (switches), it should sound much closer to a traditional organ (which was the original purpose/goal).
Amazing video ! I was unaware of this model. It sounds better than most through a tone cabinet, would love to hear it through a Leslie. Or, was that what was playing during most of the video?
Great stuff man, I really appreciate your work there. I also had my model E restored more than 10 years ago, however mine has no pedal clavier as I had found it abandoned on one of my building sites. Also there was no back panel so my carpenter not knowing how the original looked like he divided it into two ornament parts instead of three but that's alright, it gives it a little feature of originality. It took a lot of time to make it work and look good but it works. Just recently I wanted to play it and after two minutes of me playing I smelled something was heating up. Could you please tell me what is that cylinder part from 17:40 of your video, as apparantly that is causing an issue. The organ plays well but after two minutes that part starts burning and smoking and the area around it turned black so it needs to stay off untill I repair it. Thanks
Stunning restoration and indeed magnificent instrument! It's possible to hear the two traks used as background music during the first part without commentary? It would be magnificent to hear Cesar Franck on hammond!
I had a base moulding missing on one of my Hammond E's. I had a cabinet maker build one out of walnut but it doesn't match. I like your idea better. One of mine has a dead tone 57 and plan one contacting Mike at TrekII when I get to that part.
Joe, enjoyed your video very much and what a fantastic job on the old model "E" without replacing all the guts. I'm restoring a 1953 Model C, with a frozen tone generator from lack of lubrication. Things are going great on the project but I too have run into one or more dead tones. Could you put me in touch with a Trec II Note Generator specialist, who might be able to help me out. Thanks. Bob Rockey
Pretty sweet! I would love to do this to a chewed up 1949 BV and a 1962 22R leslie I have. One thing obout these older Hammond organs are the cool brass pieces everywhere like on your Run Start plate. mine has those too. The newer ones have the black plastic plates and piece like the chorus drawbar on yours. I wonder if that was replaced over the years? Anyway awesome rare model, turned out great, I am inspiired to do something similar with mine
My C-3 also had a problematic frequency 54. What was the issue with yours? Bad tonewheel? Coil/pickup? Mine appears to be a bad filter assembly. Thanks for the great video (and playing).
Wow, cool vid, nice work. I would love to find a project like that. There's a guy up the street that has an old model A Hammond? 30s I believe. your organ sounds absolutely amazing
I am in the market for an AGO Hammond organ preferably an RT series, D100 series, or better yet concert model E hammond. What is your suggestion for an AGO HAMMOND organ? By the way nice Hammond organ.
Thank you for the compliments. Regarding an AGO Hammond, the Concert Model E is a rare, esoteric animal. The only advantage from a performance aspect over the RT/D series are the dual expression pedals. Other than that, I would grab any AGO Hammond that is available to you that is in good shape and properly priced. Of course, the RT-3 and D-100 models will carry the most resale value if that is a concern. Good Luck!
If you might want to entertain a new Hammond with a AG0 pedal board, consider the model 935. Otherwise if you have your heart set on a vintage Hammond, the RT3 or D100 would be the last two incarnate of the concert model.
Dear joe great job. At the end of this great lecture the great organist the played you're restored organ I was hopeing he would pull the chorus control bar out so we could hear the chorus generator effect would you demonstrate that for us
+hammondorganman jazz organ I just remembered you were asking about the Chorus Drawbar! Here is a recording we just did. For the Prelude section, we made use of it. It was then turned off for the Fugue. Hope you like :-) ua-cam.com/video/iIBSQyXqrRo/v-deo.html
@ hammondorganman: Thanks for the comment. I will be starting a full restoration on a Leslie 31A next week. Once that is finished I will do another video and will make sure we use the Chorus Generator in the demonstration.
De-Oxit, The Best for electronic contacts. Those old caps had a -20 to +100 percent normal specifications. They were not bad, but changing them was OK. I wonder if and tuning error occurred with the cap change. You son has a good set of feet. Sometime soon he will be playing like Felix Cavaliere, never lookin down, just boobing those two feet across the bass pedal. Former bassist myself, BEST REGARDS Steve
Omg, thank you!!!! I have wanted a Model E for almost 20 years. Found a bench in a church but the organ never turned up. BTW, does anyone know how hard it would be to add vibrato/chorus and a pedal solo unit to one of these?
Hi Joe, very impressed with the entire thing: video, info on the organ, the restoration of the organ, music selection. I am confused about the "Trec Note generator". Does that mean the actual tones are being produced digitally? You mentioned putting new caps in the tone generator, I just assumed it would be used. Am I misunderstanding how it operates? You said one note was dead.. Wouldn't it just be a matter of replacing the pickup or bad wire for that note? Could you please explain this to me? Thanks, Tom
It's an arduous process to replace a transformer/pickup in Hammond generator. Much easier to use the Trek II note replacement. It is not digital. You simply tap off of the note an octave higher than the one you are missing. The Trek II divides down the frequency of the note to match the octave of the missing note and you're done. You are still utilizing the Hammond TG as the source of the missing note. Glad you liked the video :)
Okay, I believe you. I have an H112 1965 Hammond, I bought it with the idea to gut it to make guitar amps (I know, a sin), but it was so nice I decided to keep it and learn how to play it.. I was surprised how similar in construction your model is for it's age. You did a great job, saving a rare unit, I just think it's great.. Happy 4th, Tom
@@bucyruserie1211 I for one am glad to hear that you spared the life of that "heritage" H-series. My late parents had an H-133 console, with a paired Leslie tone cabinet, that they purchased new in 1965 - and was the first Hammond I started noodling on as an toddler, in the mid '70s. It was later replaced by an LSI-era Colonnade 200-series in the Fall of 1981. With their hybrid tone generation design, I'm well aware that the H-series doesn't get the same amount of love as the true TW generator B-3, C-3 or even the L/M series spinets, so anytime an H gets a reprieve, I'm happy. 😃
now we need a video on the model D with bombard. There's literally nothing, I have one and no one knows what it is, but its still a b3 c3 kinda mixed with a model E
That was SO refreshing hearing J.S. Bach's "In Thee is Gladness" on a Hammond! LOVE IT!
Outstanding restoration, documentation and saving a rare piece of Hammond history !!
I still have my B-3 bought new in '70. Gigged thousands of times. Did the same woodwork restoration to better than new six years ago. Put a Trek reverb in when that came out.
Have a '65 RT-3 / AGO in mint shape, as I miss playing a '31 Aeolian Skinner pipe organ I had lessons on long ago. Love the music. Restoring a '46 C-2 now. Smooth drawbars, new caps & resistors, Trek reverb, woodwork stripped.
Fixed reverb from 6x9 speakers in a 122RV Leslie don't cut it. The Trek reverb in the Hammond is perfect.
Your video lit an urgency for me to finish her ( the C-2) !!
I do wish the classical world took Hammond organs more seriously.
Wow! What a huge restoration! What patience you have! The E is a beautiful vintage instrument.
Thanks for sharing the odyssey.
The most beautiful restoration of a Jewel like this organ, sincerely your'e awesome, hi from Mexico
One word covers this restoration
WOW!!!!
Absolutely beautiful and fantastic work!!!
Not only an amazing renovation, but how you documented and explained the process was flawless. Straight to the point, no fluff. Great job!
I played one {1938 Hammond Model E Concert Organ} at Bibleway Temple Church of Detroit, MI. First thought, "what the hell, presets shaped like the old typewriter keyboard!!!" An absolutely marvelous sound!!!
God bless Matt, what a beautiful masterpiece of an instrument. Truly a labor of love.
Must now have a feeling of satisfaction. Well done to you for many future generations of Hammond enthusiasts.
what a fantastic restoration ,a true labour of love,thank god you've kept this wonderful instrument alive
Fantastic to see the love you put in this great instrument to make it work again!
Sounds almost exactly like pipes! what a tour, the amazing journey!
What a monster! All man made! The multitude of wires screwable! Congrats! You've made a spectacular restauration project as this gorgeous organ needs! Good find - Thanks to share it with us!...
Absolutely Beautiful Job Restoration ! and Matt playing too...
This is just spectacular. What a great job you did and a beautiful testament to your devotion to music and the Hammond organ.
Absolutely awesome presentation of a very rare HAMMOND organ.
The work and restoration is incredible love it and now it is worth lots of money.
Great job. The organ turned out beautiful. Nothing like organ music.
intelligently and articulately produced. excellent
Thanks for posting this wonderful restoration project of a very specially historic Hammond Organ.
Great video! I am very Happy to find It! I am italian and I've got the same organ ... I love It! I have the second piece of this model by Hammond.
Wonderful restoration. Thanks for sharing.
Damn!! What a great job!! Your friend must be really proud! It’s so great to see such a machine, wonderful but beaten with age, get some tlc! I hope it lives another 80 years
This was fascinating. Thank you for restoring it. Matt is terrific, too!
Elegant renovation. I've never seen one that looked that good.
Great Video!!!!! Reminds me to the restauration I did to my M3. Many, many years ago.
What a great respectfull job you have done ! Congratulations !!!
It's balm for the soul to witness a restoration of a rare old Hammond that is done with so much dedication and love. Thank you for sharing your experiences through this video, it's really appreciated. I didn't know a thing about the model E, I only saw an old picture once somewhere online but that's it. The cabinet of the organ is probably the most beautiful of any Hammond. I'm a big C3 fan (the mid-late 50's model with the quaterfoils) but the E is even more beautiful. Also nice playing in the end, great work on those bass pedals :-).
What a journey! WOW!
Such a beautiful job.
I also noticed around 20:00 the dollies. LOL
Those are exactly the same ones I had back in the..... (cough) YEARS AGO for my Hammond. LOL
I still have a bad back carrying that danged thing around. LOL
Oh, the results on the pedal board got my heart beating fast! Just beautiful!
What a wonderful restoration!
Great video of this mostly forgotten organ which was the flagship model of its day.
Congratulations on such a wonderful restoration! It’s great to see that another early Hammond survives. Great performance at the end as well. As the previous post states, I wish you were my neighbor as well!
Beautiful job. What a treasure.
The reward for all of us who love Hammond Instruments is the joy of seeing a young musicians play ”In The Is Joy” as the conclusion. Thank you for the video and be very proud of your accomplishment. And most of all thank you for securing the future of live musicians by encouraging Matt Luca to express his passion for the organ. God Bless you ALL. Posted by a life long organist and lover of Hammonds who began my career with a Hammond BC in 1965.
I used to have a Hammond E, for about 11 years from 2000-2011. It came up when I had met Robert Martin, who led the Hammond organ society out of Little Falls, New Jersey. He wanted to get me a B3, but this materialized. My mentor, a church organist heavily active in the Hudson Valley, jockeyed for me to grab it because of its A. G. O. features. It shipped with its own tone cabinet, but Robert gave me a gratis Leslie 31H speaker and the number for his technician to have the organ cleaned out and upgraded to connect with the 31H.
Through the intervening years, the E became more important to my aforementioned mentor than me. He used to practice on it constantly. When he passed away, I knew that I should try to find a home for this organ with a musician who could properly care for it. (If it was an RT-3, I may have thought twice.) I was blown away to receive a bid from a Long Island resident seeking this precise combination of the E and a Leslie 31H. For my sense of duty and honor, it made more sense for this organ to go to a player who would use it and care for it then just for me to keep it and let it collect dust.
Beautiful job! Another one rescued! And I loved the mini concert by your young friend.
Gorgeous and that Hammond sound!
thats funny you mentioned Bob, and showed his shop there- he and his wife are wonderful people....
i got two 31H Leslies from him that needed restoring, and they are coming along nicely...
it was a real pleasure driving up and meeting them.
Beautifull ! Thanks for sharing such a nice restoration on such a rare and refined organ. Great job. (congratulation to the young musician too!)
As someone who loves watching vintage videos from British and Australian TV. I recognized the E as the model of Hammond used by Jerry Allen, who was a consistent presence on early British commercial TV, particularly on the midday show on ATV called "Lunch Box." Of course, Allen was playing popular music (using the vibrato settings already on there, not a Leslie), but the console design, including the buttons for the pre-sets, were immediately recognized by me when I started watching this video.
Wow, great work. That E started off looking like the Lowrey Heritage in my room looks right now. I can only dream of the day when it could work again.
Fantastic work, interesting story, thanks for saving/restoring this great organ so sensitively, and thanks for posting this.
great video! goes deep into something people rarely see
good job, thanks for taking your time and your patience in the restoration of this historic instrument very time consuming, i know because i have spent countless hours working on my own hammonds. congratulations.
Magnificent! This was a thoroughly enjoyable video and very good of you to acknowledge those who assisted in helping you find parts, etc. Boy the memories!!!! Two buddies of mine were members of the Hammond Organ Society back in the day. I enjoyed listening to them play while I would accompany on my clarinet or bassoon! So unreal to come across this as I was reminiscing about those childhood days when nerds like my buddies and I would play music and thought it was really cool! Great times!
What an admirable spirit behind this huge amount of work which had to be done! This was fascinating to watch and I thank you for sharing this experience with the rest of the world! Simply great!
bravo pour votre travail . Fabuleux , et le résultat est extraordinaire .
Wow that was really awesome to watch your passion is infectious !!!!
This is a superb example of respect for, and dedication to, tradition and craftsmanship. Thank you for your contribution to beauty in form and function.
What a beautiful job!
Wow👍congrats
Beautiful job
Wow, beautiful restoration project... You did a fine job of it.....
I love Paul Hindemith's 2nd Organ Sonata in background! I had never heard this on a Hammond!
Really great job and video! I was thrilled to hear the Paul Hindemith Sonate II played on the Model E!!! I played that as pre-service music at my wedding, back in 1987!! (I had someone else play the processional and recessional, though!).
Beautiful!! Amazing! Thanks for sharing this video!! Love hammond organs!!
Great job and great playing in the end!
Fantastic job! A huge credit to you.
Az elektronikus orgonák királya, csodálatos hangzásvilág, mely a hallgatóit elvarázsolja.
At 6:00 I HAD to give this video a LIKE. This guy is a GREAT GREAT GREAT MAN!!!
Since this very moment I trusted you. I love vintage organs and keyboards.
Greetings from Argentina.
Great repertory choices and performance, Matt Luca, particularly the Hindemith! I practiced on a concert Hammond in high school (it wasn't an E; it had single expression and the pedal division had some push buttons including two 32's. Thank you for providing such an enjoyable tour of this particular interesting venture in American organ history.
Probably an RT (or RT-2, RT-3) ?
Your E is pretty cool! Closest Hammond I had to the E was an RT-2. It had 8 large pad switches on the right panel. Love the sardine can inside, mine had that two, and the open can key was still on it.
Wonderful workmanship! As a pipe organ builder myself, you did a marvelous job on your instrument. My thoughts about the Hammond organ: knowing how the tone wheel mechanism works, it would be expensive to do, but an extra mechanism to mixture ranks would've been fantastic. You could build in pitch breaks, AND simultaneously build not only the number of ranks for the mixture, you could also vary the amount of power within each rank. Oh my, if I had the time!
Marvelous restoration and video! Wish you were my neighbor, lol. I'm sure you've made Bob Herrmann very proud.
Beautiful !
That's a Work with passionate skill !
Thanks for the acknowledgment at in the Thank You Credits Joe!! This is a great video!! Thanks for doing this for the Hammond Organ Community!!!
Dr. Arthur D. Kemp Hello, can 2/3 series vibrato/chorus and a pedal solo unit be added to a model E?
The short answer is: yes, but it would require a substantial amount of modifications, and you would lose some original functionality of the E. It's easier to simply get an RT3.
great job!! I have a model E and it sounds great like this
You've done a job worthy of an Italian craftsman!
How much time did you spend on this wonderful renovation?
Thank you....being of Italian heritage I am grateful of your compliment! This renovation took about 5 months in total. Glad you liked it :)
Just perfect 😍
Sensational job!
Nice job, Joe!
I love all Organs 💖💖💖
Great job. You made that organ look new again. I also have a model E, with the same Hammond tone cabinet. It is in good shape, but could use some TLC. I dont have the time now to take on the job. Mine also has one dead note. I plan to do the Trek note replacement mod. Everything else on mine works.
I really should sell my E to someone that has the time to restore it.
John Jacob
john jacob im very interested in this organ..do you still have it
In particular it is the second One imported from America in separated pieces and assembled by the company Microtecnica in Turin, the biggest italian electronic Company in the 30s and 40s...
Great job and video.
Thanks for making this, very nice.
Wonderful video Sir!
Hi Joe, I was amazed by this video, I wish I had the skill and patience. I have a number of B's I'd like to restore but I know my limitations. I would love to out some chrome drawbars on one of my organs. I assume all Chromes were ratchet? How did you convert them to smooth?
HAMMONDS WERE FOR CHURCHES TO PLAY HYMNS.
I'm so sick of looking at everyone using Hammonds for jazz as well as pounding on the keys (Corey). I have a Hammond and wouldn't pair it with a Leslie if you paid me. Hammond hated Leslie.
I wanted to ThankYou so much for staying true to the Spirit of who designed these. The music as you are talking is true. Watch any original sales films.
I forgive you for using a Leslie.
Thank you. Me too. I never understood why this "instrument," and goofy sounds/tones would find its way into other genres of music. Thank you as well, for hating the Leslie bullshit. That dude wanted to recreate the nasty, harsh, spooky sounds of a theater organ's tremulants (disgusting). That's the reason I will not listen to almost anything with (what I call) a Leslie organ (since Leslie took credit for [later] shaping its sound). Hard rock, black gospel especially.
If you take the time to read Hammond's biography (which I did), you'll learn/see why he did not like Donald Leslie (a troll and had the wrong idea, for the electric organ). Use a provided tone cabinet instead. With the right drawbar settings (on any model), with all other crap off (switches), it should sound much closer to a traditional organ (which was the original purpose/goal).
great job !
Great job! You don't mention the bench. The one you have looks perfect for the instrument. Very informative and enjoyable video.
Amazing video ! I was unaware of this model. It sounds better than most through a tone cabinet, would love to hear it through a Leslie. Or, was that what was playing during most of the video?
Great stuff man, I really appreciate your work there. I also had my model E restored more than 10 years ago, however mine has no pedal clavier as I had found it abandoned on one of my building sites. Also there was no back panel so my carpenter not knowing how the original looked like he divided it into two ornament parts instead of three but that's alright, it gives it a little feature of originality. It took a lot of time to make it work and look good but it works. Just recently I wanted to play it and after two minutes of me playing I smelled something was heating up. Could you please tell me what is that cylinder part from 17:40 of your video, as apparantly that is causing an issue. The organ plays well but after two minutes that part starts burning and smoking and the area around it turned black so it needs to stay off untill I repair it. Thanks
Stunning restoration and indeed magnificent instrument! It's possible to hear the two traks used as background music during the first part without commentary? It would be magnificent to hear Cesar Franck on hammond!
I had a base moulding missing on one of my Hammond E's. I had a cabinet maker build one out of walnut but it doesn't match. I like your idea better. One of mine has a dead tone 57 and plan one contacting Mike at TrekII when I get to that part.
It's pretty easy to make a custom "scratch stock" for any moulding you want.
Love this
Joe, enjoyed your video very much and what a fantastic job on the old model "E" without replacing all the guts. I'm restoring a 1953 Model C, with a frozen tone generator from lack of lubrication. Things are going great on the project but I too have run into one or more dead tones. Could you put me in touch with a Trec II Note Generator specialist, who might be able to help me out. Thanks. Bob Rockey
+Bob Rockey
Most of the Hammond parts distributors I thanked at the end of the video are Trek II dealers. Good Luck with the Model C!
Pretty sweet! I would love to do this to a chewed up 1949 BV and a 1962 22R leslie I have. One thing obout these older Hammond organs are the cool brass pieces everywhere like on your Run Start plate. mine has those too. The newer ones have the black plastic plates and piece like the chorus drawbar on yours. I wonder if that was replaced over the years? Anyway awesome rare model, turned out great, I am inspiired to do something similar with mine
Awesome...!
My C-3 also had a problematic frequency 54. What was the issue with yours? Bad tonewheel? Coil/pickup? Mine appears to be a bad filter assembly. Thanks for the great video (and playing).
hindemith! nice touch
Wow, cool vid, nice work. I would love to find a project like that. There's a guy up the street that has an old model A Hammond? 30s I believe. your organ sounds absolutely amazing
I am in the market for an AGO Hammond organ preferably an RT series, D100 series, or better yet concert model E hammond. What is your suggestion for an AGO HAMMOND organ? By the way nice Hammond organ.
Thank you for the compliments. Regarding an AGO Hammond, the Concert Model E is a rare, esoteric animal. The only advantage from a performance aspect over the RT/D series are the dual expression pedals. Other than that, I would grab any AGO Hammond that is available to you that is in good shape and properly priced. Of course, the RT-3 and D-100 models will carry the most resale value if that is a concern. Good Luck!
If you might want to entertain a new Hammond with a AG0 pedal board, consider the model 935.
Otherwise if you have your heart set on a vintage Hammond, the RT3 or D100 would be the last two incarnate of the concert model.
Dear joe great job. At the end of this great lecture the great organist the played you're restored organ I was hopeing he would pull the chorus control bar out so we could hear the chorus generator effect would you demonstrate that for us
+hammondorganman jazz organ I just remembered you were asking about the Chorus Drawbar! Here is a recording we just did. For the Prelude section, we made use of it. It was then turned off for the Fugue. Hope you like :-) ua-cam.com/video/iIBSQyXqrRo/v-deo.html
Can you demonstrate the tremulant with your Hammond tone cabinet or a dry Leslie? Also what the tremulant sounds like with the chorus generator.
@ hammondorganman: Thanks for the comment. I will be starting a full restoration on a Leslie 31A next week. Once that is finished I will do another video and will make sure we use the Chorus Generator in the demonstration.
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De-Oxit, The Best for electronic contacts. Those old caps had a -20 to +100 percent normal specifications. They were not bad, but changing them was OK. I wonder if and tuning error occurred with the cap change. You son has a good set of feet. Sometime soon he will be playing like Felix Cavaliere, never lookin down, just boobing those two feet across the bass pedal. Former bassist myself, BEST REGARDS Steve
Omg, thank you!!!! I have wanted a Model E for almost 20 years. Found a bench in a church but the organ never turned up. BTW, does anyone know how hard it would be to add vibrato/chorus and a pedal solo unit to one of these?
Hi Joe, very impressed with the entire thing: video, info on the organ, the restoration of the organ, music selection. I am confused about the "Trec Note generator". Does that mean the actual tones are being produced digitally? You mentioned putting new caps in the tone generator, I just assumed it would be used. Am I misunderstanding how it operates? You said one note was dead.. Wouldn't it just be a matter of replacing the pickup or bad wire for that note? Could you please explain this to me? Thanks, Tom
It's an arduous process to replace a transformer/pickup in Hammond generator. Much easier to use the Trek II note replacement. It is not digital. You simply tap off of the note an octave higher than the one you are missing. The Trek II divides down the frequency of the note to match the octave of the missing note and you're done. You are still utilizing the Hammond TG as the source of the missing note. Glad you liked the video :)
Okay, I believe you. I have an H112 1965 Hammond, I bought it with the idea to gut it to make guitar amps (I know, a sin), but it was so nice I decided to keep it and learn how to play it.. I was surprised how similar in construction your model is for it's age. You did a great job, saving a rare unit, I just think it's great.. Happy 4th, Tom
@@bucyruserie1211 I for one am glad to hear that you spared the life of that "heritage" H-series. My late parents had an H-133 console, with a paired Leslie tone cabinet, that they purchased new in 1965 - and was the first Hammond I started noodling on as an toddler, in the mid '70s. It was later replaced by an LSI-era Colonnade 200-series in the Fall of 1981. With their hybrid tone generation design, I'm well aware that the H-series doesn't get the same amount of love as the true TW generator B-3, C-3 or even the L/M series spinets, so anytime an H gets a reprieve, I'm happy. 😃
now we need a video on the model D with bombard. There's literally nothing, I have one and no one knows what it is, but its still a b3 c3 kinda mixed with a model E