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ok, SO WHAT THE HELL IS THIS I BROUGHT HOME!

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6mantoys

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I found this thing in the trash today.Its called a tone cabinet by Northern electricPicture 095.jpg

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Picture 102.jpg d201 is the model.It looks like a huge amp in it. Cant tell if is stereo or not but with the two woofer or what ever they are firing down into it.Anybody seen one of these.Any info would be great.
 
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Pretty sure tone cabinets were used for electronic organs. The Hammond B3 used some of the big well known cabinets, I think they were Leslies. Those speakers look fantastic, that's one serious motor on those. And the amp has some big iron too.
 
I was just kiddin'. Seriously, that amp, when modified, could make the heart of a nice mono system, or if fully restored, a collectors item for an organ aficionado.
 
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A very old organ tone cabnet with field coil speakers, refurb the amp and find how to drive it and it might make a fair sub woofer unit, most those old ones like that can hit a 16hrtz note, (32 foot pipe on a pipe organ) If you want to use those woffers with out that amp you need to build a power unit for the field coils.
 
Northern electric is the Canadian arm of western electric.Western electric amps command a premium especially in the Far east.Their northern electric counterparts are exact clones in many cases,
So to be direct you scored!!!!
Some we and ne amps are in fact mcintosh amps.
I am no expert but this is what i have read.
 
thats a hammond D20 !

the speakers are Jensen A-12's, which have a pretty good cult following . . .supposed to have some INSANELY good midrange detail when run on open baffles . . .

apparently the hammond amp itself (P/P/P 6V6) is nothing crazy good, but you could use it to power the field coils, and then run a nicer tube amp to drive the speakers themselves . . .
 
oooooo !

just noticed that that is a Northern Electric amp . . I retract my comment about it not being awesome :D
 
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Does that mean the amp is a good one as I havnt a clue
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Quite possibly, yes. It looks to have great iron on it, so it could probably be rewired for a good design.

I'm even more interested in the speakers you scored! Two Vintage field coil Jensens, thats something! Take good care of those. Don't let any dirt get down in the gaps with no dustcaps on them. Make up some power supplies for them and run them open baffle :thmbsp:
 
Congratulations! :thmbsp: You've got some excellent iron there, especially for something you got without even knowing what it was. You SCORED there, friend, for sure! :yes:

I'll second the vote to get those Jensens running open baffle. You might want to add a tweeter on the high end, but otherwise they'll sound wonderful that way. You don't need that heavy iron to push them, either, if you're using them open baffle, although you might decide to use it.

Of course, you could always decide to use them as-is, and only play organ music through them, as sort of a dedicated organ-music system. Highly realistic! :D
 
Could i not use the amp they came with as the power supply.And what does open baffle mean exactly.How can you tell they are jensens and will they sound good with my pioneer tube reciever at 16 wpc.
 
6mantoys said:
Could i not use the amp they came with as the power supply.And what does open baffle mean exactly.How can you tell they are jensens and will they sound good with my pioneer tube reciever at 16 wpc.
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Jensen A-12's were used in the hammond D20 tone cabinet that you have, and those are sought after full range drivers. Check for a 220 code on it somewhere if you want proof. Use google to look up what open baffle is, and they will sound good with a few watts because they are high efficiency speakers. HOWEVER you need a DC power supply for the electromagnets. Field coil speakers were used before the price of AlNiCo magnets came down, and it was cheaper to manufacture Electrodynamic speakers at the time. You can use the amp you have for the power supply probably. I think that these only require 100-120v DC to run the magnets, so a power supply would be very simple to create.
 
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