[HAM] Concord w/ a leslie 710 ?

[David Damroze]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Tony Casciato wrote:

> 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.
  Your testifying has convinced me brother . I'll keep looking and 
playing My L.

D.
>
> 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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