I found one like this a couple of weeks ago in the trash.
1946 Hammond solovox tone cabinet. Unfortunately it's missing the keyboard. I'll bet it could be modified into one kick ass amp for one of my 45 Rpm record players.
https://reverb.com/item/2148649-1946-hammond-solovox-model-k-series-b
I guess there was a time when most people had a piano or organ in their livingroom. It is sad, but as grandparents die off, the kids sell off everything and dump the stuff they don't want or can't use.
"Love Trumps Hate."
"You Facist, Sexual Predator!"
" I thought a lot about blowing up the White House"
Uh Huh, What Love?
Or often, the kids will just hire a company that does Estate Sales for a piece of the pie. In talking to some of these sales people, they say the kids never bothered with going over to see what the folks left behind. The survivors would just rather not deal with it, and would prefer the cash$$$.
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
The amp idea is great. Buletooth it. It seems to be a trend. Guy here just refurbished an old radio cabinet into a simple bluetooth speaker.
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
I know if I strip in down for parts, I'll find a keyboard within a week.Originally Posted by KG4CGC
I grew up with one.
Still can't play one.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Late to the party but here goes nothing. The Hammond Solovox is the remains of the Hammond Novachord project. The solovox is an electronic sound synthesizer that can play one note at a time. The Novachord however is a full electronic synthesizer. You can hear Novachord sounds in early science fiction and forward looking movies. The Novachord was the first all electronic synthesizer, using fully 200 vacuum tubes in the tone generator and some 2A3s in the power amp. I had a Novachord and it's now living in Canada.
A friend has a pair of Leslie speakers (the revolving ones) and can't find anyone even to give them to. I'm all in favour of recycling, it's eco-friendly including taking stuff from dumpsters (skips as we call them). I have a guitar and a nice Victorian cupboard from a chemist's shop (pharmacy?) found in one.
Man, the Leslie speakers are valuable as hell to the right buyer(s).
Seriously. Go ask Brian Auger. ;)
http://brianauger.com/
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
We had a piano in the house since I was a kid. I learned to play the fiddle instead.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
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