Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I remember lugging those things, one guy on each corner. Nothing sounds like them though, I'd happily lug one again.

My Teisco Nomad Duo can be carried by one person (me) although it is around 80 pounds.

The Farfisa Professional Duo I'm restoring is more like 130 (for the main organ; it comes in FOUR cases!) and thankfully, somebody put casters on the cabinet. This is an organ for groups with roadies. I couldn't imagine having to set this thing up for small gigs repeatedly.

We used to lug the B-3 three or four times in a weekend sometimes. Of course the roadies did most of the work back then.

Ah, Bob, the good old days.

Like roadies say, "There's TWO kinds of trusses..."

$41 !!!!!!

Down in the deep south you can add two zeros to that final figure!

As in $41.00??

That sounds like the start of a redneck joke...

Try $4100.

Have you ever seen what a B3 sells for in Atlanta??

Nope.

Karl, this was not a B3--I've seen B3s go for $15K recently, although that's not an average price by any means.

The Hammond home consoles can be gotten for fire sale prices. Nobody wants to move them, few want to ship them. The fully-solid state ones are the cheapest, but there are some tonewheel models that can be had for less than $800.00.

I was forced to pass on an M100 (1961-1968, vac tube, tonewheel spinet) for $200.00 last Fall when my truck broke down on the way to pick it up, and another buyer scooped it. It was in mint condition, having come from a church practice hall. This is a close relative to the larger, more feature-laden B3. It does have that great "click" sound.

It continues...

Surfing Craigslist for deals, I found someone in NYC literally giving away a F****r Rhodes. Let's just say I responded pretty damn quick and I'm eagerly awaiting the answer back!

Your right Paul about "nobody wants them" out west.

They still sell big down south.

Many Hammonds are picked up out west and the NW and taken back south for huge profit,

Small country churches buy the SS ones too.

I recently even traded a Fender Rhodes for a complete 1967 Bandmaster and a 70's Princeton Reverb TOGETHER!

Clean Rhodes were topping over $1000 on eBay last year.

That's Rhodes, Karl--which are a cult thing all over the country, as are Vox Continentals, esp. the Jennings-made ones (pre-Italian) lately.

Combo organs are staging a rebound of a minor sort because of nostalgia and also because of their comparative portability.

Interesting factoid re: prices West and prices South. Checking on eBay gives me a countrywide view and I see little difference there. This is one more effect eBay has had on our culture and economy--it has virtually erased regional price differences on old collectible stuff. But you say people are still making profits playing the regional angle, huh? Those folks' days are numbered, I would think...

The prog band I played in (back in the last century) had a Hammond C-3 with a separate Leslie in a matching wood cabinet...like a B-3 but with solid wood sides...I'm thinkin' oak (!). Our keyboard player got a deal on it when some local mormon church was 'upgrading'...came with the full set of pedals in radial array. The thing sounded unbelievable, but getting it up and down stairs and through back hallways to get to gigs took all of us to accomplish.

Holding the 4080 for a set was not the thing I dreaded most about gigging with that band...

You guys had apparatus paralysis...

You said it, brother...it's a younger man's game. I soon discovered that if I were willing to work that hard in another field I could actually get paid...

Which field was that? Cotton or okra?