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Aeolian Hammond BA Player Organ Tone Cabinets
By Daniel Fenner

David,  I am a Hammond organ lover and collector.  As you know, the
BA was only produced in limited numbers.  In my opinion, the Hammond
sounds much better with a Leslie 122 then a Hammond tone cabinet would.
If you have both it can be very nice as well.  The tone cabinet sounds
best in either a large room or a room with ideal acoustics.

The tone cabinets that pretty much came with the Hammond B organs were
a PR40.  They are all over eBay auction, but are very heavy to ship.
For the money I would suggest a 122 Leslie.

I have a Hammond model D from around the same time that the BA came out
and I have both a tone cabinet and a 122 Leslie, all of which I restored
a year and a half ago.  I would be willing to record it being played
using both and then each separately and let you decide.

Yours, Dan Fenner
Freeville, New York


(Message sent Sun 27 Jun 2004, 18:38:13 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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