Fran...I played Hammond for a long time...I know what I heard...you don't have to believe me, that's your prerogative.

Yes, they (M-100/102) could sound slightly different than a B-3, if you played them side by side (and so could two different B-3's), but not different enough to notice otherwise...that's why many people thought AWSOP was done on a B-3, and not an M-102.

My M-3 used the identical chorus vibrato that was in the B-3, and the tone-wheels were the same design.

If it wasn't for the shorter manuals on the M-3 (2X44), I'd have kept it...it sounded like the B-3 to my ears.

You may have sold them, but I played them, and even worked on them, for many years.

They are electromechanical instruments, and consequently, no two sound exactly alike, even the same model...and, there are "good" Hammonds, and "bad" Hammonds, much like totally acoustic instruments...you could have a "good" M-3 or B-3, or a "bad" one of each.

Fender Rhodes pianos were the same way.

Ian



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