Tommy Eide's

1957 Hammond M3

     

I've always had a thing for wood. And specially wood with a organ inside. so, its a undeniable fact that a B3 is a beautiful furniture. and since I can not afford to get hold of a B3, I must look to its little sister, the M3.

I must admit that I actually like spinets. they are small, light, can fit in a small livingrom without getting the visitors to believe that I am a concert organist, and they are beautiful, and they actually contains the real parts and have real sound!

Since I already have had a L-122 and already imported a M-102, M3 was the last natural choice

Jeg har alltid hatt en ting for tre. og spesielt tre med et orgel på innsiden, så det er etubenektelig faktum at B3 er et nydelig møbel, og siden jeg ikke har råd til et B3, så må jeg kikke på lillesøsteren M3.

Jeg må innrømme at jeg faktisk liker spinettorgler. De er pene, små, lette, passer inn i en stue uten at besøkende tror at du er en konsertorganist og inneholder faktisk de riktige delene og har riktig lyd!

Siden jeg allerede har hatt en L-122 og allerede har importert en M-102, var M3 det siste naturlige valget.

     

 

 

Production Years: 1955 to 1964
Synopsis: Home style spinet with an internal amplifier and speaker. Mechanical tonewheel generator. Drawbars-only organ, with no presets of any kind.
Cabinet Size: Mahogany, Blonde Maple
Manuals: Two 44-key offset manuals. 12 pedals.
Controls: 9 drawbars upper manual, 8 drawbars lower manual, 1 pedal drawbars. Other controls on rocker switches. Percussion has four: select (on/off), volume (soft/normal), harmonic (3rd/2nd), decay (slow/fast). Vibrato has four: upper (on/off), lower (on/off), select (chorus/vibrato), vibrato depth.
Amp/Output: 11 Watts, 1-12" speaker.
Features: Mechanical tone generator and vibrato scanner, no harmonic foldback. Pedal sustain feature, with toe-switch mounted on the expression pedal.

 

 

 

 

The first look!

Look at it!

it is an M3!

My first playing.....

beautiful or what?

Trying to get a big enough car...

Parked in the living room, at last!

Me and my Hammond M3

on/off switch

Upper manual

Lower manual

The holy sign....

Lower drawbars

Pedal drawbar

Upper drawbars

Vibrato/Chorus buttons

Percussion buttons

ElectroTone control panel

Power on/off switch

Volume Pedal