The Hammond Model E was a much earlier organ in production from 1937 to 1942. I was created mostly to be more similar to a pipe organ by having a 32 note pedalboard and couplers. It's targeted audience was for the A. G. O. (The American Guild of Organists.) Which was a program for pipe organists. Then Hammond made the RT in 1949 Which had a pedal solo unit including 32 foot stops to simulate a large pipe organ. Which was replaced later that year with the RT2 from 1949 to 1955 which had split vibrato so you could have vibrato on one manual and none on the other. Then from 1955 to 1974 they made the RT3 which had a percussion feature on it just like the B3, C3 and A100s did. The RT3 was Hammond's third longest production run. second being the C3 and first being the B3.
Yes James that is a concert model RT 3. I owned one in 1966 and played in a bar weekends with it for a year. I't also had a PR 40 tone cabinet and a Leslie speaker. The other organ in front of you is an A 101 basically the same organ as a B3 but with a self-contained speaker. The a-100 a101 a102 are all the same organ. The last number just identifies the furniture style.
I learned that we are gonna get one of these in 2 days, along with 2 leslies. Our Hammond collection has expanded to 2 B3's, 1 Hammond tone cabinet, 1 Leslie 21h, 1 Leslie 144, and 1 Leslie 147
Indeed you’re right. Nothing sounds like a genuine Hammond! It’s nice to explore a lot of the various models out there and their differences. It would be nice to find one of the early Hammonds with the dials rather than draw bars. Probably none exists that are functioning. Another great walk through of one of my favorite instruments! Thanks!
I had the surprise and joy to play on one Tuesday gone in a lodge building on the south coast in England, sadly no Leslie, just a large straight Tone cabinet but the pedal solo worked. The 32’ bombarde packed some punch.
James, I like your videos and I love the 32 note curved Pedal. No pedalboard is more easy to play as this comode style. I don't know it is A.G.O., but I think so. You are a great guy and an enthusiast of key instruments. I will look forward for more interesting stuff from you!
I believe you will find the organ in question is an A-101. (I say this because I owned one for many years.) One thing about it, regardless of the body style, the sound of a Hammond is unforgettable. Thanks for another wonderful and edifying video James.
My dad, brothers and I used to pick up and deliver Hammonds years ago for Vaughns music in Denver, we worked out of the Greeley CO store. Thanks for the E info.
Another great organ demo. Years ago James Hammond made a series of spinets home organs with a set of 13 pedals on the left an expression pedal on the right. It had two smaller manuals and to turn it on had 2 switches, you would push up on a spring loaded one which would star rotating the tone generators and then once up to speed the on off switch would be pushed up to the on position. My mom had one of these as her first organ and we had a good time with it in the house. Maybe some day you may come across one of these and do a demo. Hammond was so much ahead of their time. Have a great day and as I have said to you before, I really enjoy your talent and especially your constant enthusiasm. Best wishes, Brad Maier Long Island
Thank you for the information. There is a lot of information to learn about the Hammond series of organs, and like you said so far ahead of their time. They will never be built again, but they were built like tanks so the older versions should last forever. I wonder how long these new chip board versions will last?
ThePianoforever James, Not long, the old ones were built like tanks and sounded and still sound so good. I read the Wikipedia article and it had a lot of history, check it out if you haven’t already. What amazes me are the old Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organs. So many were destroyed but there seems to be a growing collection of them around. There is one in a Pizza Restaurant in Mesa Az called Pizza and Pipes I believe, it is fantastic. There are many You Tube videos of it worth looking at. There is also a wonderful young organist from England on you tube by the name of David Gray who is quite amazing. he went to college in England as a music major and great pianist like you worth watching, perhaps when he is in the US you could meet him, seems like a super talent too. One other Organ company worth checking out is the Allen Organ built right here in the USA in Pennsylvania. They build fantastic organs and have demos on their website, check it out . Best wishes, Brad
The Organ your playing us an RT-3. The RT&E series are both 61/51/32 compass (as was the G-100&D100, an RT-3 with Built in Speakers). The RT (and D-100) models had Pedal Solo Units (a Tube Monophonic Synthesizer) and the E had a Chorus Generator and a Great to Pedal Coupler System. The E went completely out of Production by the time the first RT was Built in 1949.
I really enjoyed the video with the model E- RT 3 Hammond organ. I have this organ, but it needs repair of the starting mechanism. I found this video when looking for repair for my organ in Enid, Oklahoma. Any information would be appreciated cftrn
The pedalboard is a 32 note concave radiating board, not a 32 foot. Afaik no Hammond ever had a 32' pedal stop. The reverb unit is in the Hammond tone cabinet. It's a spring delay unit.
the old saying "they don't make it like they used to ..." applies to Hammond organs perfectly well! maybe someone 'crazy enough' with a lot of money would appear out of nowhere and decide to make new Hammond tone-wheel organs the old style? anyone? please? PLEASE!?
It would seem you are right. I ran across one of these in someones home about a year ago and he told me it was a model E. I would have done a video of it at the time, but the pedal board was in a different room.
@@ThePianoforever the model E is an older version of this, but it doesn't have the reversed preset keys and the extra pedal tabs. E100 is a totally different model though. thanks for your videos!!
Organs absolutely boggle my mind. How on earth does one begin to understand how to play it? That said, I give you the reply from the National Arts Centre of Canada regarding Glenn Gould's piano seat: "Hello Randy, Thanks for your email. The piano, CD318, has returned from storage and is installed in Southam Hall Foyer. The chair, however, remains in storage. We are planning on bringing it out for display, but are still working out the installation plans. There is no set date for its return at this point. All best, Robert
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Who is the original composer of the song you're playing. I'm trying to figure it out, but Bach wrote and/or harmonized a few too many hymns to narrow it down lol
@@ThePianoforever That does help. I am in the market for an AGO Hammond organ myself. I am also looking into a 32 note AGO pedalboard for a midi project that I could use on a system to come close to an AGO Hammond organ myself in the future.
You are supposed to play the organ with dedicated organ shoes, but in a pinch, socks will also work. He is saying that he has his street shoes on, which are very much not made for playing the pedals.
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The Hammond Model E was a much earlier organ in production from 1937 to 1942. I was created mostly to be more similar to a pipe organ by having a 32 note pedalboard and couplers. It's targeted audience was for the A. G. O. (The American Guild of Organists.) Which was a program for pipe organists. Then Hammond made the RT in 1949 Which had a pedal solo unit including 32 foot stops to simulate a large pipe organ. Which was replaced later that year with the RT2 from 1949 to 1955 which had split vibrato so you could have vibrato on one manual and none on the other. Then from 1955 to 1974 they made the RT3 which had a percussion feature on it just like the B3, C3 and A100s did. The RT3 was Hammond's third longest production run. second being the C3 and first being the B3.
Yes James that is a concert model RT 3. I owned one in 1966 and played in a bar weekends with it for a year. I't also had a PR 40 tone cabinet and a Leslie speaker. The other organ in front of you is an A 101 basically the same organ as a B3 but with a self-contained speaker. The a-100 a101 a102 are all the same organ. The last number just identifies the furniture style.
I learned that we are gonna get one of these in 2 days, along with 2 leslies. Our Hammond collection has expanded to 2 B3's, 1 Hammond tone cabinet, 1 Leslie 21h, 1 Leslie 144, and 1 Leslie 147
Indeed you’re right. Nothing sounds like a genuine Hammond! It’s nice to explore a lot of the various models out there and their differences. It would be nice to find one of the early Hammonds with the dials rather than draw bars. Probably none exists that are functioning. Another great walk through of one of my favorite instruments! Thanks!
I had the surprise and joy to play on one Tuesday gone in a lodge building on the south coast in England, sadly no Leslie, just a large straight Tone cabinet but the pedal solo worked. The 32’ bombarde packed some punch.
James, I like your videos and I love the 32 note curved Pedal. No pedalboard is more easy to play as this comode style. I don't know it is A.G.O., but I think so. You are a great guy and an enthusiast of key instruments. I will look forward for more interesting stuff from you!
I believe you will find the organ in question is an A-101. (I say this because I owned one for many years.) One thing about it, regardless of the body style, the sound of a Hammond is unforgettable. Thanks for another wonderful and edifying video James.
Very nice. Cool to be able to add harmonics to the pedal.
My dad, brothers and I used to pick up and deliver Hammonds years ago for Vaughns music in Denver, we worked out of the Greeley CO store. Thanks for the E info.
RT3*
Another great organ demo. Years ago James Hammond made a series of spinets home organs with a set of 13 pedals on the left an expression pedal on the right. It had two smaller manuals and to turn it on had 2 switches, you would push up on a spring loaded one which would star rotating the tone generators and then once up to speed the on off switch would be pushed up to the on position.
My mom had one of these as her first organ and we had a good time with it in the house. Maybe some day you may come across one of these and do a demo.
Hammond was so much ahead of their time.
Have a great day and as I have said to you before, I really enjoy your talent and especially your constant enthusiasm.
Best wishes,
Brad Maier
Long Island
Thank you for the information.
There is a lot of information to learn about the Hammond series of organs, and like you said so far ahead of their time. They will never be built again, but they were built like tanks so the older versions should last forever. I wonder how long these new chip board versions will last?
ThePianoforever James,
Not long, the old ones were built like tanks and sounded and still sound so good.
I read the Wikipedia article and it had a lot of history, check it out if you haven’t already.
What amazes me are the old Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organs. So many were destroyed but there seems to be a growing collection of them around. There is one in a Pizza Restaurant in Mesa Az called Pizza and Pipes I believe, it is fantastic.
There are many You Tube videos of it worth looking at. There is also a wonderful young organist from England on you tube by the name of David Gray who is quite amazing. he went to college in England as a music major and great pianist like you worth watching, perhaps when he is in the US you could meet him, seems like a super talent too.
One other Organ company worth checking out is the Allen Organ built right here in the USA in Pennsylvania. They build fantastic organs and have demos on their website, check it out .
Best wishes,
Brad
i finally found it, this is the one i play at my church. so rare.
The Organ your playing us an RT-3. The RT&E series are both 61/51/32 compass (as was the G-100&D100, an RT-3 with Built in Speakers). The RT (and D-100) models had Pedal Solo Units (a Tube Monophonic Synthesizer) and the E had a Chorus Generator and a Great to Pedal Coupler System. The E went completely out of Production by the time the first RT was Built in 1949.
The Tone Cabinet is either a PR-20 or PR-40 (P-20s &P-40s, without Reverb also exist).
Great video and a cool organ.
I really enjoyed the video with the model E- RT 3 Hammond organ. I have this organ, but it needs repair of the starting mechanism. I found this video when looking for repair for my organ in Enid, Oklahoma. Any information would be appreciated cftrn
I think the small white envelope in the bench was labelled organ key so it probably contained the key to lock the console
Always liked the church organ sound.
Bach organ piece, very nice.
The pedalboard is a 32 note concave radiating board, not a 32 foot. Afaik no Hammond ever had a 32' pedal stop. The reverb unit is in the Hammond tone cabinet. It's a spring delay unit.
the old saying "they don't make it like they used to ..." applies to Hammond organs perfectly well!
maybe someone 'crazy enough' with a lot of money would appear out of nowhere and decide to make new Hammond tone-wheel organs the old style?
anyone? please? PLEASE!?
I know a guy who happens to have three of these for sale in various case styles.
This is the model RT-3
I think you are sitting at the Hammond RT-3.
It would seem you are right. I ran across one of these in someones home about a year ago and he told me it was a model E. I would have done a video of it at the time, but the pedal board was in a different room.
@@ThePianoforever the model E is an older version of this, but it doesn't have the reversed preset keys and the extra pedal tabs. E100 is a totally different model though. thanks for your videos!!
What was the name the Bach piece played at 4:12? I forgot the specific name of it
Organs absolutely boggle my mind. How on earth does one begin to understand how to play it? That said, I give you the reply from the National Arts Centre of Canada regarding Glenn Gould's piano seat:
"Hello Randy,
Thanks for your email.
The piano, CD318, has returned from storage and is installed in Southam Hall Foyer. The chair, however, remains in storage. We are planning on bringing it out for display, but are still working out the installation plans. There is no set date for its return at this point.
All best,
Robert
Robert VanderBerg
Archivist-Curator, Archives, Visual Arts and Exhibitions | Digital Engagement
Archiviste-Conservateur, Archives, Arts visuels et Expositions | Expérience numérique"
What are your thoughts on the Hammond xk5? I've heard a mixture of good things and bad things and am wondering about your thoughts
It could never hold a candle to a vintage Hammond.
@@ThePianoforever Fair enough
@@ThePianoforever Also, have you ever heard of a Hammond Spinet Model 810165?
The best Hammonds were the B3 and C2 versions. Your model does not ring a bell, but if it is a transistor variant they are not nearly as respected.
Who is the original composer of the song you're playing. I'm trying to figure it out, but Bach wrote and/or harmonized a few too many hymns to narrow it down lol
The name of the piece is called We Pray Now to the Holy Spirit.
This is ideal for playing the Doors !
Bonitos🤗
Apologies if other people have already asked this, but have you ever played one of the (few remaining) full-blown Wurlitzer theater organs?
Not yet.
Блестящий!
What does this black keys do. Near the left hand?
That's factory presets on console Hammond organs.
Reverse colored keys*
Is this organ for sale or no?
It is at a well known dealer in Cleveland, I will include the information here.
Bill Kap Piano Company, 14130 Euclid Ave. East Cleveland, Ohio 44112
@@ThePianoforever That does help. I am in the market for an AGO Hammond organ myself. I am also looking into a 32 note AGO pedalboard for a midi project that I could use on a system to come close to an AGO Hammond organ myself in the future.
5:34 you are supposed to play organ barefoot???
You are supposed to play the organ with dedicated organ shoes, but in a pinch, socks will also work. He is saying that he has his street shoes on, which are very much not made for playing the pedals.