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Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby whitenoise » 09 Mar 2012, 12:02

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a good place to purchase a Hammond A100/C3/B3 and leslie 122 or 145. The company should be reliable, have average market pricing, able to ship to Russia. Hope you can give me good advice.
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby paulymusik » 09 Mar 2012, 15:36

Look fo Dennis Delzer in the net (http://www.b3hammond.com)
I and some other people got an Hammond from him. It was shipped by air and my organ and leslie sounds very well.
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby whitenoise » 09 Mar 2012, 18:53

paulymusik wrote:Look fo Dennis Delzer in the net (http://www.b3hammond.com)
I and some other people got an Hammond from him. It was shipped by air and my organ and leslie sounds very well.


Thanks for advice. What was the price and how much did you pay for delivery? Did they supply insurance?
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby jazzystu » 10 Mar 2012, 18:48

I've had a couple of hammonds.

PLEASE BEWARE OF THE MELTING RUBBER FOAM PROBLEM CAUSING DEAD NOTES IN LATER MODELS.

THIS IS EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT TO FIX AND IS A NIGHTMARE.

If you get a redcap model, for god's sake make sure there are no dead notes. I would even consider stripping the keyboards and removing the foam if you got one with OK notes.

Ebay seems to be half reasonable price-wise at the moment. Failing that, try and hunt down a bloke called Marcus in the Midlands (uk) who has a barn full of Hammonds.

Personally, I'd wait and keep my ear to the ground and look at auction sales.

Put it this way, I had a 61 RT3 for £411.70 and a 69 C3 for wait for it, wait for it.......



























£40 freaking pounds.

If I was in the market for a hammond now, I'd buy a BC from the US and whack percussion/chorus on it. I had a BC as well and the superdeep bass notes are pretty rad.
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby paulymusik » 10 Mar 2012, 20:54

Hallo whitenoise,

the price for my A 102 and the leslie was 6.700,- $, the price for shipping by air and insurtance was 2.178,-$ At thar time it was 6.500,-€ for the Hammond, Leslie, shipping and insurance.
In your country you need to pay custom and, if you need it, someone who take the organ at the airport and bring it through the custom.
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby whitenoise » 11 Mar 2012, 04:21

jazzystu wrote:I've had a couple of hammonds.
PLEASE BEWARE OF THE MELTING RUBBER FOAM PROBLEM CAUSING DEAD NOTES IN LATER MODELS.
THIS IS EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT TO FIX AND IS A NIGHTMARE.
If you get a redcap model, for god's sake make sure there are no dead notes. I would even consider stripping the keyboards and removing the foam if you got one with OK notes.


Where is that rubber foam located in organ? Would it be the case for the Hammonds produced between 63 and 65 or did they use something else at those times?


jazzystu wrote: Ebay seems to be half reasonable price-wise at the moment. Failing that, try and hunt down a bloke called Marcus in the Midlands (uk) who has a barn full of Hammonds.
Personally, I'd wait and keep my ear to the ground and look at auction sales.
Put it this way, I had a 61 RT3 for £411.70 and a 69 C3 for wait for it, wait for it.......
£40 freaking pounds.


These are just unbelievably low prices. I'll monitor for that guy offers on ebay. Thanks.
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby whitenoise » 11 Mar 2012, 04:29

paulymusik wrote:Hallo whitenoise,

the price for my A 102 and the leslie was 6.700,- $, the price for shipping by air and insurtance was 2.178,-$ At thar time it was 6.500,-€ for the Hammond, Leslie, shipping and insurance.
In your country you need to pay custom and, if you need it, someone who take the organ at the airport and bring it through the custom.


Thanks. I see the same level of prices in some other shops. The ebay prices are much lower. A102 price at ebay starts under $1000. Some sellers agree to arrange shipment:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ham ... R40&_clu=2

Did you consider ebay when you were choosing the place to purchase?
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby whitenoise » 11 Mar 2012, 04:31

Does anybody have good or bad experience with a seller named "adickson" located in Colorado Springs that frequently sells Hammond organs on Ebay?
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby paulymusik » 11 Mar 2012, 13:41

Hallo whitenoise,

I think for an original hammond you should look in the hammond forum. Here is the link
http://www.analogorgel.de/orgel/ But its a german forum, I kdon´t know if they are answering in english
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Re: Good place to buy a Hammond (A100/C3/B3)

Postby jazzystu » 12 Mar 2012, 12:19

Jeez. The foam thing is difficult. I'd get yourself on a hammond forum and start asking. You can look into the keyboard via holes and see it, but I can't remember where, it has been a while. The white cap/silver transformer models are clear. These have HAMMOND in small writing between the keyboards and the ratchetless drawbars.

My last organ had the melty foam and several dead notes. You do not want to repeat my experience. The foam "melts" and then burns through the key contact wires creating electrical mayhem. The key wires are the next complicated thing after the human brain. It's not even a talented expert "in the shed" fix it job.

Germans like Hammonds and the prices are strong over there. There was a guy who bought my RT3 to chop it. Klaus..... WR_10 on ebay. He might be worth a contact. You never know.....Oddly enough, my BC went to Germany as well.

I would most certainly go american. However, the prices are such that I'd probably go for one of those italian clonewheel things.

Some of the B3 and C3 prices on the net are totally and utterly beyond what they are worth as instruments.
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