[HAM] Concord w/ a leslie 710 ?

[Tony Casciato]

David,

I bought a Concord and a Leslie 710 new back in the 70's.  It was a 
great combination when new but then I started having problems.  The 
connectors on the board edges evidently become intermittent very 
easily with the least little bit of dirt.  Soon I was having sections 
of the keyboards drop out at random.  The internal Leslie would drop 
in and come back in at random.    For a while in the 80;s I was able 
to find someone to repair it but it was never right again.  The 8' 
voice on the pedals quit and was never heard from again.  The only 
thing that never failed was the Auto-Vari rythme accompaniment 
section, not really very useful without a functioning organ.

The Leslie had frequent problems with the rotating contacts which 
would become intermettent.

Finally it sat idle in my sitting room for years until finally I got 
fed up and sold it for practically nothing.  Someday I hope to get 
back into the Hammond game with a vintage A-100 and appropriate 
Leslie.  I love the Hammonds but it has to be a tone wheel generator 
with tube amplifiers.

The LSI (Large Scale Integration - ie transistor) organs the Hammond 
brought out in the 70's were a bust and, unfortunately, I bought one.

    Tony...

re: David Damroze <damroze at excite.com> [HAM] Concord w/ a leslie 710 ?


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