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I was googling around, and came accross this forum. I have a problem with my M3, in that when I turn it on,....it's SILENT as all get out. Very nice. However, I've noticed that the top harmonics,.....eh, maybe the last 3 of them, don't work on the upper and lower manuals. Since the TWG is so quiet, I figured that it couldn't be a problem ...

Waiting on a 6ba6 for my newly acquired M-2, and about to wet myself waiting to play it, so here's what I came up with: I disconnected the pedal signal (black wire, hooked to ''pedal in'' in the schem), and both wires from the pedal key switch. I then routed the pedal signal through the key switch (which turns the signal on when a pedal is down ...

ok so i got this Hammond M3 for free, its way cool, so i took it home, and i started it up, and it worked really well, so i played it a couple times that day, and then i was going to play it again, and it turned on nicely, but no sounds came out, and i was looking around the back, its really dusty and spider webs but it looks fine, but yea could ...

Hi folks, this is not a problem, per se, but it is bugging me. My 1958 M-3 has three oil reservoirs. The two on left and right empty into funnels attached to the tone generator, which makes sense, but the middle reservoir has no funnel below it. As far as I can tell, the middle reservoir does not even drain. After oiling the organ for the first ...

Hi all, I'm a new member of The Organ Forum and the proud new owner of a 1958 M-3 (later model). Hope one of you experts can help me. After a good cleaning with DeoxIT, oiling and resoldering  2 broken TG contacts, the organ is sounding good, except for one problem: a loud 60hz hum, heard only when the pedal drawbar is pulled out. Volume of ...

Hi to all; I'm curious as to your opinions, here. Everything is working (more or less) great with my old M3 (Many thanks again to all here who helped me in its resurrection and restoration!), but I'm noticing a ''low hum.'' I don't *think* it's 60Hz buzz, because it's not constant--it only happens when, 1: One or more drawbars are out; and, 2: ...

Hi folks. I bought an M-3 on eBay a few months ago. The price was $182 which is not very much.(I know, then it's the shipping and the power transformer and the frequency shifter...)  I had it shipped to Iceland. I bought a frequency shifter from Germany (by mistake it was sent to USA because my Paypal shipping address is automatically there ...

Hi, everybody; Thanks in large part to the advice I've received from everyone here, my old M-3--having been dormant for 19 years, and possibly polluted with cat whiz--is finally working! Ahhhhh... There is now officially a lot more that's right with it than there is wrong, so I am happily testing away on things. The amp seems to be working ...

Hello to all; Pre-emptive question to avoid harming things, here! I'm restoring an old M-3, and someone in the past has spliced wires together going from the amp to the speaker. My experience as a guitar tech tells me that this is not the best way to go, especially since the ''splicing'' consists of wires wrapped around each other and sealed with ...

Hi to all; I'm working to restore an M-3 that's been dormant for about 19 years. I've cleaned out the cobwebs (literally...), de-greased the amp chassis (mostly...), and have 4 tubes of oil on order, which will hopefully be in soon! It looks like someone did some rather odd wire splicing to the speaker, which does not make me happy--I'll probably ...