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Title: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: dingster1 on April 14, 2010, 07:20:48 AM
There is a B3 up for sale  this morning in the Post in Owings Mills $5500. Oh if I had the money and space!!!!
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: B3Wannabe on April 14, 2010, 12:16:34 PM
An A100 is cheaper.
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: under13 on April 14, 2010, 12:24:31 PM
An A100 is cheaper.

And has reverb! I'd go with an A100 (preferebly an A105). The only reason imo to get a B3 is if you want that classic look while on stage, or if you find one for a good price.
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: khanss65 on April 20, 2010, 10:36:45 AM
Hammond B3 Washington Post .If Captain Pugwash had had a cousin who played the Hammond organ, he'd look a lot like Joey DeFrancesco. The same goatee, tubby frame and cheerful authority are there, but he'd be sailing on a heavy- bottomed freighter rather than a swift battleship, because the Hammond is a beast of an instrument; capable of producing beautiful sounds, but a whistling, grunting bulky beast all the same, and one more suited to Cut Throat Jake than the amiable .Thanks.
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: fmason3 on April 20, 2010, 11:04:52 AM
And has reverb! I'd go with an A100 (preferebly an A105). The only reason imo to get a B3 is if you want that classic look while on stage, or if you find one for a good price.

You use it?  And an A105 is a C3 with internal speakers = monstrous!  :D
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: under13 on April 20, 2010, 12:21:11 PM
You use it?  And an A105 is a C3 with internal speakers = monstrous!  :D

Yeah, I use it for certain things, but not much. I know everybody here seems to hate the Reverb, but I think it makes it sound as if you're playing in a huge church. As for the A105, yes its a monster!
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: fmason3 on April 20, 2010, 01:29:23 PM
Yeah, I use it for certain things, but not much. I know everybody here seems to hate the Reverb, but I think it makes it sound as if you're playing in a huge church. As for the A105, yes its a monster!

I was referring to its size.  That joker is about as heavy as the RT3. 

I don't hate reverb.  But I don't think most people know what it stands for or why it sounds the way it does.  Like you said "as if you're playing in a huge church."  Personally, if I'm in a small church, I kinda want it to sound like a small church.
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: cwgolden99 on April 20, 2010, 01:33:07 PM
And has reverb! I'd go with an A100 (preferebly an A105). The only reason imo to get a B3 is if you want that classic look while on stage, or if you find one for a good price.

Speaking of an A-105, I got a call from a friend today who is on hard times and is selling his A105, for DIRT CHEAP.  He just doesn't have a leslie for it, I would buy it, but I have a B3 and I'm still hearing about how I bought it behind my wifes back :)
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: under13 on April 20, 2010, 01:59:56 PM
I was referring to its size.  That joker is about as heavy as the RT3. 

I don't hate reverb.  But I don't think most people know what it stands for or why it sounds the way it does.  Like you said "as if you're playing in a huge church."  Personally, if I'm in a small church, I kinda want it to sound like a small church.

oh yes the A100s are heavy. now the the D100 is even heavier, I think they called it the Cadilac of hammonds.


Speaking of an A-105, I got a call from a friend today who is on hard times and is selling his A105, for DIRT CHEAP.  He just doesn't have a leslie for it, I would buy it, but I have a B3 and I'm still hearing about how I bought it behind my wifes back :)

lol, I have quite a few musician friends who have bought gear without their wives knowing, and have tried to hide it....but I guess its hard to hide a B3 :D



Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: cwgolden99 on April 20, 2010, 06:53:40 PM
lol, I have quite a few musician friends who have bought gear without their wives knowing, and have tried to hide it....but I guess its hard to hide a B3 :D

Yea, it hard to hide a B3 and 122, but at the price I paid, I had to just bite the bullet on it and deal w/ her being mad :)
Title: Re: Hammond B3 Washington Post
Post by: musiqisme26 on April 21, 2010, 12:14:56 PM
Speaking of an A-105, I got a call from a friend today who is on hard times and is selling his A105, for DIRT CHEAP.  He just doesn't have a leslie for it, I would buy it, but I have a B3 and I'm still hearing about how I bought it behind my wifes back :)


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