Hammond E-112

[Paul Carter]

I'm a guitar player for over 30 years. I wanted to get an M3 or other lower
cost tone wheel organ.
There is a Hammond E-112 for sale locally with the bass pedals fairly cheep.
I have been unable to locate a lot of info on this model.
Is it better or worse than an M3 and what should be the maximum I should pay
for this.
It is currently at an old folks home and seems to work ok.
Thanks for your input.
Paul

[Doug S]

Thus spake Paul Carter <cart...@charter.net>:

>I'm a guitar player for over 30 years. I wanted to get an M3 or other lower
>cost tone wheel organ.
>There is a Hammond E-112 for sale locally with the bass pedals fairly cheep.
>I have been unable to locate a lot of info on this model.
>Is it better or worse than an M3 and what should be the maximum I should pay
>for this.

If you love the Hammond sound, you're better off with an M-3 than with
an E-100 series.

The pro's:
- full-size manuals and pedalboard
- 3 more presets per manual than an M-3 has (M-3's have no presets).

The con's:
- keyclick engineered out
- expensive-to-replace tubes
- service manual hard to get (compared to M-3, B-3, etc).
- percussion is completely different than B-3
- "finicky" - E-100's and H-100's were not mechanically/electronically
reliable compared to earlier organs.

I had one. I paid $75 for it, and another $50 for the service manual.

A year later, I got an A-105 and sold the E-112 for $125. The buyer
thought it was great at first but fairly quickly realized it wasn't
what he wanted. Eventually he parted it out - it was worth more in
parts (the tubes, the pedalboard, etc) than as a whole. That says a
lot right there.

Doug
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[Paul Carter]

Thanks for your info.
A.B or C models are out of my price range.
M-3's seem to be in the $200-300 range.
What else might you recommend in the under $500 range
Thanks
Paul

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[Larry]

Much better than M3....better amp, more power, bigger speakerS

NEVER ALLOW ANYONE TO SPRAY ANYTHING ON THE TAB KEY CONTACTS OR IT'LL
MELT THE PLASTIC PARTS!!.....just for info. Clean them with a
business card strip between the closed contacts or a small burnishing
tool.

Larry

Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.

[bernie....@gmail.com]

WORSE

[Lord Valve]

Hey, noob - you just replied to a post that's TEN YEARS OLD.

Get back to us when you have a clue, ok, asshole?