Promoted similar listings













this is my first chopped M3 I have built this year. I built and sold around 6 or so on Reverb last year. I have posted a video that show the foot pedal and small Leslies I build that compliment these chop M3s really well. On the Leslie video you can can hear some more of my awful playing but at least hear some more what the organ can do. please have a little patience and take a few minutes to read all about this. I spend around 60 hours on each organ like this so there's a lot to go over.
Please note, stand and dolly are not included. You'll need a heavy duty stand for this
 this organ is a great organ for getting that real fat sound of the classic B3 for much less cost and weight. It weighs app 220 lbs. the M3 is similar to the B3 in the way of tone, other organs are thinner sounding and have cheaper keys and such. the biggest difference is in the way the keys on a B3 go app and octave and a half lower than the M3s do. M3s are great for most styles of music unless your a jazz or gospel player, then you would want the extra bass that the larger consoles like the B3 have. 
 the biggest and most important thing I do to make the M3s more like a B3 is the addition of foldback in the upper manual. this adds app 60 tones in the higher registrations that a standard M3 does not have, the B3 all have the foldback so this is very important for using a lot of drawbar setting that B3 players use. 
 in my rebuilding of this organ I rebuild the amp, I automatically replace all the electrolytic capacitors and are in the power supply, while most of them actually worked fine, leaking capacitors and these caps going bad over time can cause hums and lack of power in some parts of the amplifier. I also rebuild the scanner, again, it was working fine, but again a shorted scanner is the main cause of choppy vibrato and for about 3 hours of work I can pretty much guarantee you'll have great vibrato for the next 20 years or so. I also do a lot of general maintenance such a cleaning and lubing the drawbars, blow out and clean all the switches, I restore the key action, to where the keys play nice and tight not all sloppy and noisy like some old Hammonds that have been played a lot. I also clean all the keys and clean all the dust from under the keys,
on this organ I have installed a volume knob, it is to the left of the vibrato switches, this is a lot of work but it serves very well to control the volume, if you would like to use an Ernie Ball type of volume pedal I can build a circuit for that, it's $100 more this allows the volume control I've already built to be used as a master volume while you control the volume with a pedal. 
this organ has two 1/4" outputs, one is a hot signal used for a Leslie, the other is a beefed down signal for a DI or keyboard amp, I strongly recommend using a tube amp because transistors amps make the Hammond have way too much key click and sound harsh to our ears.
for shipping I'm asking $450 it could be less if you are closer, so please contact me for a shipping quote. I put this on a pallet, wrap it in some styrofoam and srinkwrap. so far it has worked out quite well, another thing about shipping I can get it to a warehouse in your area a lot cheaper than delivering to your door, delivering to your door means you have to pretty much take a day off to be there while shipping to a warehouse allows to you pick it up at your leasure. so please consider that. 
If you're coming to LA and wanna buy this and avoid shipping cost we can do that as well

Promoted similar listings













Listed8 years ago
ConditionVery Good (Used)
Very Good items may show a few slight marks or scratches but are fully functional and in overall great shape.Learn more
Brand
Model
  • M3
Finish
  • Red
Categories
Year
  • 1958

Product safety information may be available here.

Harold's Hammond Leslie shop

Los Angeles, CA, United States
Joined Reverb:2016

Reverb Gives

Your purchases help youth music programs get the gear they need to make music.

Oops, looks like you forgot something. Please check the fields highlighted in red.