"It had a great sound,"

Did it have any Delay? Good organists can somehow play old pipe organs and not be bothered by the delay, would be too much for me!

A friend's homemade pipe organ strangely does not exhibit any delay. Made from disgarded Allen console and scrounged pipes - the Tibias were dumped on a church parking lot on the Magnificent Mile in the 1960s and hoarded by another person until recently, they are very smooth as can be heard by this recording I made with a 1959 condenser mike:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElwlSRxSRPY

Good organists can somehow play old pipe organs and not be bothered by the delay, would be too much for me!

And must be even harder when the congregation's singing is lagging the delay.

A friend's homemade pipe organ

I like it.

I reckon nothing sounds better than Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory being played on the Grand Organ at the Sydney Town Hall. My only regret is that I've only heard it the once, back in 1985 when my school had its speech night there.

If I could play an organ I'd do my darndest to either get one or permission to play one. I could play the one at work without trouble but turning the notes into music is the hard bit.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

'Organ at the Sydney Town Hall'

How does this compare to the one at the Opera House?

How does this compare to the one at the Opera House?

Compare in which way in particular? They are generations apart.

Here are the specs:

http://www.ohta.org.au/confs/Sydney/SYDNEYTOWNHALL.html.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House_Grand_Organ.

GTC, may I play your Hammond if I get the chance to? I always wanted to play a Hammond in G smoke on the water was recorded on a distorted Hammond/Leslie/Marshall amp combo

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"I'd rather have a CRT than nothing" - me
"people just throw working CRTs out, it is NOT FUNNY!" -me

GTC, may I play your Hammond if I get the chance to?

You'd need to come to Sydney for that, after I get a "round tuit" -- working on it I mean.

At the moment I have some more pressing priorities.

(And I'm on a promise to let my neighbour's wife play it first.)

Okay, Then make sure the Leslie is connected and running when I do come around I live 4 hours away from sydney in the Newcastle Area and so the drive isn't a problem lol, I want a Hammond, and where did you get yours? I wanna find a Hammond, but every one I find is a piece of s--- LSI organ D: I want this T-200 spinet tonewheel that I found on ebay, $495 they want for it, if I had $500 I would have bought it and fitted it with a Leslie kit and bought a Leslie

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"I'd rather have a CRT than nothing" - me
"people just throw working CRTs out, it is NOT FUNNY!" -me

where did you get yours?

I bought my M-102 and 147 as pair on eBay from local seller. Bidding was fierce because everybody wanted the 147. They don't come up for sale very often in Oz and they are in demand.

I want this T-200 spinet tonewheel that I found on ebay, $495

I don't think you'll find a good working tonewheel organ, with bench*, in Oz for much less than that.

I would have bought it and fitted it with a Leslie kit and bought a Leslie

The T-200 came with built-in Leslie. Even though it's solid state technology, and not a highly popular model these days, the T-200 is a good unit with genuine Hammond sound (albeit a touch sharper than the valve models). I'd say you'd be happy with it once you played it.

* Regarding benches: some sellers think it's smart to sell the bench separately. As I've mentioned elsewhere, organ benches mysteriously disappear (sometimes to become coffee tables), so when a bench comes up for sale the starting price and bidding can be high. Thus, if you find a good organ and there's no mention of the bench tell the seller that you are only interested in an organ and bench combo. That way, the missing bench is often suddenly "found".

Wow, I didn't know that it had an inbuilt Leslie I'd be gigging it then, lol

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"I'd rather have a CRT than nothing" - me
"people just throw working CRTs out, it is NOT FUNNY!" -me