lsj Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 I have a 1962 hammond a-100 with an original leslie 122 in my music room. my wife says it smells in there, from the age and hammond oil and I know since this is not the first hammond I owned. get rid of the wife or the hammond. just joking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 I love the smell of Hammond oil in the morning. Smells like Victory. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delaware Dave Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 I just oiled mine two weeks ago. ah, the smell is back! Quote 57 Hammond B3; 69 Hammond L100P; 68 Leslie 122; Kurzweil Forte7 & PC3; M-Audio Code 61; Voce V5+; Neo Vent; EV ELX112P; GSI Gemini & Burn Delaware Dave Exit93band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PianoMan51 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Do the old capacitors have an odor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Def the tubes do if they are dusty and they heat up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawback Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 When I bought it, my first chopped C3 was previously in storage in a bunker outside of town. Affectionately known as "The Pig," it weighed a ton and smelled pretty bad. More than once it stunk of smoking transformer until it stopped working entirely. The other smell, I found out shortly, was from the rodents that chewed up the cloth wires and left droppings all over the place. Quote ____________________________________ Rod Here for the gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 When I bought my M3, It smelled very, very old. I left it in my garage a while, then disassembled it and went over everything with a vacuum and air compressor. There was a good 50 years of dust in there. No smell now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old No7 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Do what I did when I had my Hammond M3 Chop, I gave her a choice... "Honey, it's Hammond Oil or Hoppes Gun Solvent -- take your pick! For now, only the Hoppes is downstairs!" Old No7 Quote Yamaha MODX6 * Hammond SK Pro 73 * Roland Fantom-08 * Crumar Mojo Pedals * Mackie Thump 12As * Tascam DP-24SD * JBL 305 MkIIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old No7 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 1 minute ago, Old No7 said: Do what I did when I had my Hammond M3 Chop, I gave her a choice... "Honey, it's Hammond Oil or Hoppes Gun Solvent -- take your pick! For now, only the Hoppes is downstairs!" Old No7 And for "the rest of the story"............ A week later, my cellar smelled like Hoppes Gun Solvent AND Hammond Oil..................... Oh well......... 😉 Old No7 1 Quote Yamaha MODX6 * Hammond SK Pro 73 * Roland Fantom-08 * Crumar Mojo Pedals * Mackie Thump 12As * Tascam DP-24SD * JBL 305 MkIIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OB Dave Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Mmmm... Hammonds. Old VWs too. They should make an aftershave. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortmaxx Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Timely. I just did the annual oiling on my M3 last week. Who doesn't love the smell of warm generator oil and a little Old English? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elif Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Any time I read anything about the smell of a Hammond, I think of a funny posting Perry Hemus made to the zk3 Hammond mailing list in 1995. He was lamenting the fact that he had an M100 which didn't have the sound he was looking for. Quote ... I have one at the moment, I am looking out for a decent lesley. But at the moment it sounds crap (churchy, ooh Mrs Miller, wheres my bloomers?) ... I don't want a module or a synth, I hate them, I want a big bastard Hammond that screems, hums and smells like an old man's house. I have one at the moment that does the latter, but not the former. Advice please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 That redolent Hammond smell - particularly on one that's been heavily gigged like mine were- is definitely part of the whole immersive experience that you just don't get with a clone. I feel the same way about acoustic pianos btw. Quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outkaster Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Yeah My B-3 has that smell when the back is off. My fiance wasn't too happy. Quote "Danny, ci manchi a tutti. La E-Street Band non e' la stessa senza di te. Riposa in pace, fratello" noblevibes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogs Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Reading these posts reminded me that I still had half a tin of Hammond oil in the shed ... I'd kept it from my days as a Hammond tech in the 1970s.. So I went and found it and took the lid off....... It is amazing how just one sniff of that famous oil instantly brought back a flood of memories! Even back in the day we knew the tone wheel Hammonds were special of course... I'm not sure I ever realised quite how special they would become, 50 years on.... 1 Quote Yamaha - YC61 - P105 - MOX6 - HC2 -- Neo Vent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Other notable smells burned into the typical musician's olfactory senses: 2" tape (dear lord, somebody put that in a bottle, I'd buy it!) The interior of a keyboard road case (esp the glue!!) Every bathroom of every club Every green room of every club (fried food, musty dank basement mildew, spilled beer) The packaging material for ANYTHING that plugs in or has a battery. The bass player that refuses to shower The clothing ball on the floor from the gig the night before (this has gotten way better since they limited smoking indoors) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipeb3 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Leslies have their own smell, too. I like both the Hammond & Leslie odors...they're both touchstones as something that I've smelled almost all my life. Sometimes they can take me right back to my parents basement.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 I haven't had a B3 since 2004. Sure miss it. I use to turn it on some days just for the smell and to hear it purr in my place. Funny how things might not sit with some, but means something else to others. Like the smell of solder or hypo/stop bath. Great stuff...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reezekeys Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 I sense a business opportunity for the "scatch and sniff" makers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old No7 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 9 hours ago, skipeb3 said: ...Sometimes they can take me right back to my parents basement.... Oooh -- do you guys remember the Testors Model Glue back in the 60's & 70's ? ? ? THAT was a great way for an 8 to 15 year old to get high... 😵 Sure built a ton of models back then! (Explains a lot today, actually...............) Old No7 Quote Yamaha MODX6 * Hammond SK Pro 73 * Roland Fantom-08 * Crumar Mojo Pedals * Mackie Thump 12As * Tascam DP-24SD * JBL 305 MkIIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analogika Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 I keep the back off my B3. The whole studio space smells of oil, old wood and electronics. Instant home when I walk through the door. Quote "The Angels of Libra are in the European vanguard of the [retro soul] movement" (Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Funk) The Drawbars | off jazz organ trio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elif Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 21 hours ago, Reezekeys said: I sense a business opportunity for the "scatch and sniff" makers... In the interest of "authenticity", which clonist will be the first to include "authentic oil smell" along with the other features, e.g. tweakable tone generator cal., key click, crosstalk, etc. None? I suppose one could at least include one of those scratch-n-sniff paper things in the promo material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscapeRocks Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 new: Hammond, by Faberge' 2 1 Quote David Gig Rig:Depends on the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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