Found a Hammond Organ in the trash...

Looks to me like a B3 sans pedals...

ew

Thanks, that helps a bunch. It does look like this orignally had foot pedals, I was thinking B3 also but I'm no expert.

The identifying plate is not out in the open, I don't know if it even has it. I haven't been able to find pics with this type of base yet, but I'm thinking this might be a early/mid 70's model.



I have a knack for finding gems in the trash btw...last year I found a Kustom 1-15B...in very good condition. It works perfect.

gratz on that find! Very cool!

The good news is -- if you want to keep it and it needs fixing its probably easier to fix one of the transister models than a tonewheel organ. Plus if it was a tonewheel you would have herniated yourself dragging it from the curb.

I have to say that I prefer some of the later transister models to the B3 (in sound -- the build quality is another thing altogether) so it may be a great musical find if not a great financial one. I think there is an emotional attatchment to tonewheels that wouldn't stand up to any real A/B testing. I don't know anything about this model though.

If you want a good read (including a very good list of all of the things that can go wrong with hammond) check out "Beauty and the B." While its focus is obviously on the B3 it has a very nice summary of all of the organs made by hammond. I will take a look tonight and see what it says about this model.

All I ever throw away is burned up PSU's, hot dog wrappers and empty water bottles.

But I've learned that if I ever have a non-working Hammond B-3000, I'll sell it. A few hundred bones is a few hundred bones.

I gotta start hanging round the same trash cans you do

ORIGINAL: Ron Vogel

ORIGINAL: krizrox

I gotta start hanging round the same trash cans you do

A couple of local towns have "amnesty days" where you can put stuff out at the curb all week...and anything goes. We get out in the van when these are happening and actively look for stuff.

Yeah they do that here in Elgin, IL all the time too. It's fun to drive around and look at all the junk people put out on their curbs (I'm easily entertained). We have a large Hispanic population here in Elgin and they tend to be the first ones on the scene with their pickmeup trucks. If it's something with any sort of inate value, it's usually gone within minutes of putting it out on the curb. I'm pretty sure if I put a guitar or keyboard out on the curb I'd probably start a gang war

btw - Gibson has a factory here in Elgin where they make pickups (and various other misc products like tshirts). For years I'd hear stories of guys going dumpster diving over there and finding pickups and stuff in the dumpster out back.

In all seriousness, throwing a musical instrument in the trash to me is pretty disappointing, Can't someone take a few seconds and post a free ad on a site like craigslist with a title like "(insert instrument) free to good home"???

Even if it would cost more to repair, perhaps someone could use that organ for parts? Maybe, just maybe someone would want to fix it? Maybe sometime in the future a (working) organ like that might be worth a little something because everyone who had a problem with one put it out on the curb?...or how about this, wouldn't it be neat to gut the organ and modify it into a DAW desk? The wood alone has to be at least worth something no?

At any rate, I guess I could understand the organ's potential for being discarded, but a WORKING guitar amplifier??? This really has me shaking my head in disbelief. Nice find there Ron Vogel!!!

Gee, I could stand out on the curb all day and all night, and doubt anyone would want to "pick me up"...except for the police!

ORIGINAL: Lanceindastudio

umm dude those were very prejudice remarks. wtf? If you said that in front of me, there might be a little gang war right there

Not sure I catch your meaning but if I said something that offended you I apologize.

Oh now I understand. You're right. I wasn't thinking. When I said gang war I meant gang of garbage scavengers - not like ghetto gangs or anything like that. Oh boy. Now I have some 'splaining to do. Just in case there's any question about it I'm a gringo too but I'm married to a Mexican woman (straight from Chihuahua, Mexico) and most of my neighbors and close friends happen to be Hispanic. Elgin is home to a very large Hispanic community (for some odd reason we have close ties to a specific town in Puerto Rico but I couldn't explain the reason behind that at the moment). I'll bet this town is pretty evenly divided between whites and Hispanics. My daughter's grade school is pretty much 50-50 in terms of english speaking and non-english speaking children (again, most are Hispanic but who's counting).

The guys that come around and retreive the valuables we set out on the curb are predominantly Hispanics (I can tell from the words printed on the sides of the trucks and the fact that they all speak Spanish which is a dead giveaway). The dumpster-diving white rednecks are the minority here but there are plenty of them too. They cruise around here almost daily looking for scavenger items to recycle or sell to local recycling plants. It wasn't disrespect at all but I can see now how it might be considered disrespectful. I meant it as a joke - these guys cruise around all day trying to get the good stuff before anyone else.

I mentioned this to my wife and she laughed out loud. We tend to joke with each other about our race. I'm related to half of Northern Mexico through marriage. My wife comes froma big family down there. I think that entitles me to make fun of them but always in a respectful and loving way. I can see how someone who didn't know me might take it personally and get angry. I migth remove the original post but if I do that then all this won't make sense Just call me a dumb gringo and we'll be even!

I love Dos XX and also Bohemia. And personally I don't see anything wrong with hijacking a thread about finding an organ in the garbage. I mean how much worse can it get? There's lots of directions we could take this one

Salut!

ORIGINAL: krizrox

ORIGINAL: Ron Vogel

ORIGINAL: krizrox

I gotta start hanging round the same trash cans you do

A couple of local towns have "amnesty days" where you can put stuff out at the curb all week...and anything goes. We get out in the van when these are happening and actively look for stuff.

Yeah they do that here in Elgin, IL all the time too

btw - Gibson has a factory here in Elgin where they make pickups (and various other misc products like tshirts). For years I'd hear stories of guys going dumpster diving over there and finding pickups and stuff in the dumpster out back.

I'm in Bolingbrook...they just did one in Woodridge and Downers grove.

I'll have to check out that Gibson factory. There used to be a music shop in Westmont that sold Gibson factory rejects...I got a Les Paul back in the late 80's for $60 unfinished...it's a great kick around guitar for me and has seen plenty of stage use:

ORIGINAL: Cheeto

Ron,

Do you have any thoughts as to why it didn't pass quality control? How does it play compared one that's a...ya know...inspector 13 passed?

I'm guessing you had to add all the hardware, was it already fretted and have a nut?

At any rate, I think that's another awesome score!

And to think, that nearly axe made it to being someones $3k LP custom or whatnot!

The edge banding was coming off or uneven, that's about it. I fixed all of that, sealed it, then did a watercolor painting on it...and sprayed on many coats of clear laquer. I may refinish it again since I can do better work now, but it still looks pretty nice. I did have to add all my own hardware and such, so I did a special bridge that I used on some other guitars I've built. Sounds phenominal, I use it mainly for slide and certain lead parts. It has some intonation issues that a decent shop could probably fix, but not too bad. It was fretted, I don't remember if it had a nut on it, but I think so.

It wasn't really a find, that shop sold factory rejects for many years. I think they went under about 10 years ago (ProAM music).