Hammond M3 1957 "BLACK BEAUTY mini B"

"BLACK BEAUTY mini B".....This is my other Hammond M3, a 1957 with a not so common black ebony finish. This project is almost finished. I've pretty much rebuilt it and did a lot of mod's. Vibrato line box overhaul all new capacitors and resistors. I even did a little mod and soldered in a potentiometer, to dial in how deep you want the chorus vibrato to be. I have replaced and soldered in all new capacitors in the Tone Generator. AC cord replaced. Wired in a 9 pin Leslie connector Box to go with a Leslie 760, that I had to replace a horn driver. Percussion mod, so you can have louder percussion without drawbar volume drop. Fold Back and Bass mod, dropping the bottom manual down a full octave adding 16' as your first drawbar. so you can play left hand bass on a spinet like a full console organ and get that thundering rumble, when you do a full palm, upwards, glissando. I ordered in a 3 pole switch and built a home-made Leslie switch with the help of my deer old Dad, that build the box to house the switch out of an old guitar tuner. I wired the switch so you have Choral. Brake, and Tremolo....in that order. Dad also helped me with the backing for the organ after he put on about 100+ coats of wax on the organ. I got some "black leather double red stitch diamond tuft" upholstery we finished the back and I upholstered the top of the bench. This Organ sounds so amazing...fat, beefy, clean tone, and really powerful. It screams and gets really aggressive when you crank it. I love it! She is ready for the lounge. It is now the organ I take to most of my gigs ...I didn’t have much video of demonstrating it at home but I have a clip of me rocking out on it at a gig through my Leslie 147. So I thought it would be interesting to use it to demonstrate how the organ sounds in a live gig context.