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Hammond Organ

joel27

joel27

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I'm not going to ask about dollar value. I want to know if a Hammond organ is worth harvesting tubes from or are the normally ran hard? It has 18 12au7's from various makes but mostly sylvania. It has 2 12ax7's one bugle boy and I believe 2 or 3 6v6 tubes + a few other random ones. Is this worth wasting time on?
 
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They are probably worth keeping.

Just out of curiousity, what model is the organ? Sometimes entire amps are worth keeping...or the entire organ...or it may have good iron.
 
If its a tonewheel organ, consider leaving it intact. They have a sound to them that is unique and sought-after. I really hate seeing the wheel organs gutted. They sound so marvelous.
 
Yeah, I'd yank the tube's and gut her. You could repurpose the amp parts if you're the diy type or put 'em on the bay. The chord model you have just ain't a great organ, better conversation piece than instrument. lol I fortunately/unfortunately have 2 Hammonds that followed me home (M3, L100) and I can't bring my self to carving them up! And the tubes are good (only used by little old ladies for an hour on Sunday's!) Hope that helps.
 
I've got a chord organ here, and always figured if I found another, there would be enough iron to make a stereo amp. I think it's an S6. I haven't brought myself to carving this one up either, but if you're going to do yours, I might be interested in parts, or vice versa. Let me know.
 
I bought a Thomas organ at a thrift. Built around 1960. Amp with PP 6V6's, 12, 12AU7's etc. Nothing really special. Separate amp on the bottom, which is better than everything on one chassis.
 
BTW I don't think the chord organs are particularly valuable. Mine is in fine shape cosmetically and since I have space, I've stored it for potential restoration, but there is so little demand for these.

They do have a huge power tranny since there a couple dozen tubes to run. The output iron is undersized in relation. One might be able to run a stereo amp off one PT, or build monoblocks using different OT's. That's just a SWAG from a guy who never built an amp. :D
 
In light of this news if it's still available tomorrow night I will pick it up if the price is right.
 
I just bought a Hammond L-103 for ten bucks and gutted it. Now, I have to decide what to do with the speakers amp and tubes... Anyone have a handy DIY tutorial they can point me to? If not, I guess I could just sell it on ebay and use the funds to fix up one of my "real" tube amps sitting around.
 
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