Re[4]: FWD: Looking for a B-3

[gstopp@fibermux.com]

     To Al Goff:
     
     >
     >Gene Stopp --- you are GUILTY of swindling a fine old woman, 
     >destroying a classic piece of equipment, and worst of all, you'd do 
     >it again in a minute!
     >
     
     Al, I can only hope that my story can serve as my CONFESSION.
     
     Although I don't know if I should consider you as "the God of Hammond 
     Organs", you are at the very least a Saint. Therefore I say to you: 
     "Father, forgive me, for I have sinned." There. Now I can move on to 
     my next conquest. Hey while I'm at it I should probably confess some 
     of my other Hammond transgressions - adding solid state stuff to my CV 
     and Leslie! The list may get a kick out of my strange garage-bred 
     klooges (hey - how do you spell "klooge" anyway?).
     
     When I bought the CV it was cut down and stood on four 2" pipes, 
     looking much like an elephant on stork legs, with the audio output 
     being an XLR jack to the G-G signals. I wanted a 1/4" output so I 
     added a little op-amp circuit that also had a percussion thing for the 
     top manual - B preset permanently having 3rd harmonic with a knob for 
     decay time. It sounds extremely chuffy and spitty and still looks like 
     an elephant on stork legs. Next project maybe.
     
     The Leslie is a 122, bought sometime later. I added an unbalanced to 
     balanced converter for some 1/4" audio inputs and a long wire with a 
     footswitch controlling solid-state relays for the fast/slow/stop 
     control. The amp chassis had some extra output tubes parallelled on 
     the existing ones, and lasted a year or so before taking out its own 
     fuse (plus the house circuit breakers) in an orgy of blue radiation. I 
     tried to fix it but inside it was a mass of electrical tape and 
     silicon glue. Now there's a brand-spankin'-new GOFF 122 chassis in 
     there and overall it's quite a nice unit. Had to paint it black, 
     though, since the finish sucked when I got it.
     
     Anyway in case you're keepin' count on who all has what, that's my 
     inventory.
     
     - Gene
     gstopp@fibermux.com
     
     p.s. okay this may make you cringe but I need to ask you - if I had to 
     store the organ on it's side, should it be motor-up or motor-down?


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Subject: Re: Re[2]: FWD: Looking for a B-3
Author:  hammond@zk3.dec.com at ccrelayout
Date:    12/26/95 6:06 AM
     
     Al           (P.S. --- Mark, Brad, and other board members--- I 
     apologize for suggesting to Gene that he join our HAMMOND board. I 
     forgot about his dark side......)     :-)