Keyboard Shortcuts
ctrl + shift + ? :
Show all keyboard shortcuts
ctrl + g :
Navigate to a group
ctrl + shift + f :
Find
ctrl + / :
Quick actions
esc to dismiss
Likes
Search
[hammond_zone] e100
|
In a message dated 2/28/2002 2:42:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
bottomline@... writes: I saw someone who was selling a hammond E100. I myself have a L100. But IIn the USA, no. If you shop around and bide your time, you can get an A-100 for $900-1500 or so. I think Speakeasy Vintage Music had them fully refurbished starting at $2000. I recently spent $1500 on decent A-105 that needed about 10 hours work and $75 investment to get it "up to snuff". I probably over-paid for it, but I wanted the A-105 style case and bought it from a friend. In 12/00 bought an E-112 for $75 from a pawn shop, kept it a year doing minimal work on it, and recently sold it for on EBay $120 with the service manual, so it was about a wash. The reason I bought it was for the full-size manuals & pedals. I really liked my L-295 spinet more, and I always treated the E-112 as "inferior to what I really wanted". E-100's are missing the bottom twelve "complex" pedal tonewheels (the pedals are done with a divider, sound lousy, and you can only play one at a time). There's 3 fixed presets and one set of drawbars per manual, no reverse-color presets. Keys are diving-board, not waterfall. On the bright side, they DO have the scanner vibrato and tonewheel generator, and an onboard amp with reverb. It's possible to hook a Leslie to one. Regarding the percussion: they don't have the 2nd/3rd percussion (this is a possible mod, I have documents from Michael Fulk about how to do it). Instead they have "pre-voiced" percussion like an R-100, T-100, and H-100 (with guitar, banjo, chime, xylophone, and marimba, brush & cymbal). The output tubes (7591 if I remember right) are pricey if they need to be replaced. On the whole, the E-100 and H-100 are considered "finicky", better get a service manual for it (and no, these manuals don't turn up on EBay like console and M-series manuals do, get one from Jerry Welch). So unless an better alternative is REALLY unobtainable where you're at, pass or haggle. Doug |
|
Gandert De Boo
Doug,
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
I think I'll just stick to my Hammond L122! Gandert ----- Original Message -----
From: dougsyolists@... To: hammond_zone@... Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:31 AM Subject: Fwd: [hammond_zone] e100 In a message dated 2/28/2002 2:42:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, bottomline@... writes: > I saw someone who was selling a hammond E100. I myself have a L100. But I > was wondering, in what way do these two organs differ from each other. > Will it be worth buying the E100 for 1000 dollars? In the USA, no. If you shop around and bide your time, you can get an A-100 for $900-1500 or so. I think Speakeasy Vintage Music had them fully refurbished starting at $2000. I recently spent $1500 on decent A-105 that needed about 10 hours work and $75 investment to get it "up to snuff". I probably over-paid for it, but I wanted the A-105 style case and bought it from a friend. In 12/00 bought an E-112 for $75 from a pawn shop, kept it a year doing minimal work on it, and recently sold it for on EBay $120 with the service manual, so it was about a wash. The reason I bought it was for the full-size manuals & pedals. I really liked my L-295 spinet more, and I always treated the E-112 as "inferior to what I really wanted". E-100's are missing the bottom twelve "complex" pedal tonewheels (the pedals are done with a divider, sound lousy, and you can only play one at a time). There's 3 fixed presets and one set of drawbars per manual, no reverse-color presets. Keys are diving-board, not waterfall. On the bright side, they DO have the scanner vibrato and tonewheel generator, and an onboard amp with reverb. It's possible to hook a Leslie to one. Regarding the percussion: they don't have the 2nd/3rd percussion (this is a possible mod, I have documents from Michael Fulk about how to do it). Instead they have "pre-voiced" percussion like an R-100, T-100, and H-100 (with guitar, banjo, chime, xylophone, and marimba, brush & cymbal). The output tubes (7591 if I remember right) are pricey if they need to be replaced. On the whole, the E-100 and H-100 are considered "finicky", better get a service manual for it (and no, these manuals don't turn up on EBay like console and M-series manuals do, get one from Jerry Welch). So unless an better alternative is REALLY unobtainable where you're at, pass or haggle. Doug Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Visit The Hammond Zone To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: hammond_zone-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
to navigate to use esc to dismiss