Re: Sha Na Na!

[loul@ihlpm.att.com (Louis M Leciejewski 708 979 3382)]

Joe, I wouldnt think that the old Hammonds are hard to service. In the 30 years
I owned my B3 I NEVER had a service call. The "RUN SWITCH" is the only thing 
that
went out on me and that was very simple to replace. You just have to keep them 
oiled too. The other vulnerable circuitry in the older Hammonds was something
called the "scanner". Now I heard that is somewhat on the expensive side to get
repaired. My only other minor problem was some drawbars sounded as though they
had dirty contacts. I had the smooth drawbars in my B3

Regarding service on Leslies, the only possible bad item I heard was that there
was some sort of transformer that if it went bad in the Leslie 910 there is no
replacement but I am not sure that is true. The 910 Leslie was for bands and was
100 watts (trasistorized amps) with spring reverb. 

If you have some sort of "Trading Ad" paper that gets published for your area I
am sure they have a Piano/Organ Forsale section. In the Chicago area we have The
Trading Times and there are ALOT of used organ ads in there. I always check once
in awhile to see whats out there. Hammonds are priced all over the place 
depending
on condition, etc. 

Good Luck

Lou
loul@ihlpm.att.com