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Re: Hammond on eBay...

2003-07-25 by Bernie Kornowicz

This site seems to be the official Hammond site: 
http://hammondsuzuki.com

Anyone using Native Instruments B4?

Bernie
(missing my old B3)

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "mellotrongirl" 
<mellotrongirl@h...> wrote:
> Nice unit! And going cheap! 
> 
> Reminds me of a 1936 Model A I saw in a Salvation Army thrift 
store 
> in Walla Walla, WA back around 1995. It was $400 and came with one 
> of the first Leslies ever built--one of the ultra-rare units that 
> spun counter-clockwise and was the size of a large refridgerator. 
> The whole set-up was beat up and scuffed pretty bad, but 
everything 
> worked perfectly. What a great restoration project if only I had 
the 
> time (and space!) and the means to get it to my house two hours' 
> drive away. As it was, the rig sat in the store for nearly a month 
> until it was sold to a local church.
> 
> If only that same scenerio would drop into my lap today.
> 
> Too bad Hammond doesn't have a homepage (understandable). At least 
> there are collectors sites all over the place and active trading 
> going on. There are dying Hammonds all over the intermountain 
> Pacific Northwest--partly because service techs have to come in 
from 
> Portland, Spokane or Boise, and won't visit until they have at 
least 
> three or four other repairs in the neighborhood.

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