MOTM

improv@... writes:

>>Wow, what a beauty! Even if it doesn't make a sound, the flashing lights
 oughta be worth whatever you paid! Man, that just looks like a totally
 crazy instrument. Would love to hear what it sounds like!<<

I have to admit, I bought it almost as much for its impressive looks as for 
its sound.  Back in the late 70s early 80s when they were in production, a 
factory built one cost more than $40,000.  I picked this one up for $2500.  
It is a crazy instrument.  In fact it is quite hard to understand a lot of 
it.  I seems that everything affects everything else.  You can push a switch 
and hear no change in sound, but that is because you have to enable about 3 
other things and pull out a drawbar to hear the change.

>>I too am a recent recipient of an organ transplant: a few weeks ago I was 
given a Hammond M3, 1957 vintage spinet-style tonewheel organ.<<

My family inheritted an M103 with a Leslie when my grandfather died when I 
was young.  But those little spinet models just don't seem to have the heavy 
full sound of a B3 as far as I can remember.  So it might not be a real close 
comparison.

-Elhardt