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Unusual Hammond Console from the early 50's


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I came across this 1953 film and can't recall ever seeing a Hammond with this cabinet-style. It does look like it came from the Hammond factory. There also appears to be some additional knobs and/or switches on the left side of the cabinet. The Three Suns are seen with a conventional Hammond B-style organ in most other videos. Anyone know anything about this?

 

 

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My money says it IS a Hammond but for some reason in a custom cabinet. I know of no other organ that sounded like that and especially one with draw bars, which I was always led to believe, were sort of a proprietary technology until Hammond went broke in the 1970's 

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Some kind of Hammond, but def a one off on the cabinetry. If you examine the closeups at 4:06 the drawbars and presets are there. However the upper and lower left side cheekblocks appear to have identical additional controls for some purpose.IIRC Lenny Dee had a hot rodded model A with analog delays and a Solovox keyboard built in. That one also had red and green fluorescent tubes mounted under the manuals. I’d love to know if that still exists.

 

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