Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

Wow, an actual Leslie inside shot? The only part I ever saw before was the revolving horn, thought there would be more to the insides considering what comes out of that thing!

In this one, the bottom left is a tube power amp, the preamp is in the organ. A heavy multi wire cable carries the wall voltage and signal wires to the Leslie. The power amp feeds a crossover and splits to a 15” bass speaker the high frequency horn. You see two horns but one is a dummy. There are motors, a big pulley below, smaller in above and belts that drive the bottom and top rotors. The bin on the bottom is a scoop that throws sound out. Sometimes there’s a cloth bag over it. The top and bottom turn at different speeds and in opposite directions. The Leslie itself has a fast and slow speed control, and off. Overall, there is both amplitude (volume) and frequency sound modulation.

"Unearthing The Mysteries of the Leslie Cabinet"

 

[Passinwind]

Not long after that, someone in Linden NJ was building my SVT. Who would have thought that 50 years later it would still be thumping out songs.

Yep. Think of whoever made these tubes that I just got in today, and what they would have thought about my distorted slide bass and other assorted tomfoolery. The boxes look like someone may have opened them a handful of times over the last seventy years or so. Astounding for $20 all in.

 

[GonePlaid]

In this one, the bottom left is a tube power amp, the preamp is in the organ. A heavy multi wire cable carries the wall voltage and signal wires to the Leslie. The power amp feeds a crossover and splits to a 15” bass speaker the high frequency horn. You see two horns but one is a dummy. There are motors, a big pulley below, smaller in above and belts that drive the bottom and top rotors. The bin on the bottom is a scoop that throws sound out. Sometimes there’s a cloth bag over it. The top and bottom turn at different speeds and in opposite directions. The Leslie itself has a fast and slow speed control, and off. Overall, there is both amplitude (volume) and frequency sound modulation.

"Unearthing The Mysteries of the Leslie Cabinet"

I was playing a (borrowed) VOX Continental through mine via a floor pedal preamp that had stomp buttons for speed control. And, of course, that big brown cable.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Yep. Think of whoever made these tubes that I just got in today, and what they would have thought about my distorted slide bass and other assorted tomfoolery. The boxes look like someone may have opened them a handful of times over the last seventy years or so. Astounding for $20 all in.

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Those old boxes are fun to look at. Almost like album jackets. To think how many years they sat waiting to be put into service.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I was playing a (borrowed) VOX Continental through mine via a floor pedal preamp that had stomp buttons for speed control. And, of course, that big brown cable.

I have a Leslie floor pedal unit somewhere. It doesn’t have the pre in it like yours did, I always wanted to add one. With a ¼” jack, anything can be plugged in. I have the schematic for the transistorized preamp, just waiting.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Those old boxes are fun to look at. Almost like album jackets. To think how many years they sat waiting to be put into service.

There's likely an ebay buyer's market for empty boxes.

 

[Charlie Tango]

A different type of vibe.

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Where did you get my old Leslie 122RV?

 

[beans-on-toast]

There's likely an ebay buyer's market for empty boxes.

There is, people collect them. They also put tubes in bases for display. Hummel collectors would not be impressed.

 

[Charlie Tango]

I leave schlepping heavy equipment to others.

Some churches do have incense burners. Maybe that’s where bands got the idea for smoke machines.

We ex-choristers generally hate thuribles, unless the priest is sufficiently clued in to get the type of incense that doesn't make one cough in the middle of singing, in which case we only despise them.

 

[GwenOnBass]

A representative from Montblanc advised me not to toss an empty 80s sepia ink bottle on account of the collector's market. (I tossed it, I was never fond of that particular ink. But I did use the entire bottle.)

 

[Charlie Tango]

First day at boot camp, going to breakfast: they have "creamed chipped beef on toast points" or SOS. I happen to really like that [stuff]. I ask if I can have more. Guy serving looked at me like I was nuts(possibly). "You want more of this [stuff]?" "Yup", says I. Other guys in the company immediately decide I'm weird(documented).

Toast *points*??!?!? How precious. We were lucky if they set the toaster dark enough to not get merely warm bread.

 

[Charlie Tango]

Where can I get one of those? I have a present day use for one...

Where else? Invalid Link Removed

 

[Charlie Tango]

Those are the services I knew as "smells and bells". When some churches ended Latin services, you'd have thought someone put a McDonald's in the Taj Mahal.

The Episcopal Church runs the gamut from "low" parishes, where they may have Communion once a month, to "high," and the nosebleed highs are in the Anglo-Catholic form. We call it smells and bells too.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...(hopefully with a smoke machine and some flashing stage lighting)

We (sometimes) had the latter, but never the former. Good thing, too, really, from my experiences with those in theatre.

First day at boot camp...

I thought this was going to be a story relating to La Contessa's photo of all those boots.

Wow, an actual Leslie inside shot? The only part I ever saw before was the revolving horn, thought there would be more to the insides considering what comes out of that thing!

An old friend of mine had a 147 that got lots of mileage in the band (along with the attendant service/repairs by us).

I used to own one that got moved at least twice a day, sometimes 4x. With things getting jarred out of adjustment fairly often, I became far more familiar with the 'guts' than I ever wanted to. PITA.

See above.

I have a Leslie floor pedal unit somewhere. It doesn’t have the pre in it like yours did, I always wanted to add one. With a ¼” jack, anything can be plugged in. I have the schematic for the transistorized preamp, just waiting.

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Is that for a 900 series Leslie (going by the aforementioned item in the photo, behind the pedal)?

A representative from Montblanc advised me not to toss an empty 80s sepia ink bottle on account of the collector's market. (I tossed it, I was never fond of that particular ink. But I did use the entire bottle.)

I still have the case (empty) of the MXR Phase 90 I bought in 1974 (it was full of guts, back then). Gotta' wonder what it would fetch on the 'bay?

I finally bought a new one a couple days ago. Been thinking about doing that since the old one died back in the mid '90s. Better late than never, especially, now that there is no band to use it with.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Is that for a 900 series Leslie (going by the aforementioned item in the photo, behind the pedal)?

These units have one to multiple connectors on the back, with different numbers of pins so they can connect to different Leslie cabinets. The one in the image above was indeed for the 900 series cabs. A 147 would use a model 1969 combo pedal. But you could install the proper connector and rewire for the cabinet or use an adapter. Hammond organs were the same for connecting, they had Leslie connector kits. I’ve found that it sounds best with a tube pre in the organ mated with a tube power amp in the Leslie as opposed to mixing tube and transistor.

 

[BassmanPaul]

None of my instruments have any rash as well. Any dings get repaired.

Old people know to take care of their stuff. They even shine their leather shoes.

Have you forgotten about Birkenstocks? Mind you I don't shine mine, just have them recorked once in a while.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I still have the case (empty) of the MXR Phase 90 I bought in 1974 (it was full of guts, back then). Gotta' wonder what it would fetch on the 'bay?

I finally bought a new one a couple days ago. Been thinking about doing that since the old one died back in the mid '90s. Better late than never, especially, now that there is no band to use it with.

I have an original Phase 100. The day I got it, I drilled a hole in it and installed a power supply connector so I wouldn’t need to use a battery. Then I tested it for the first time only to find that it didn’t work. It turned out to be a simple fix, a resistor leg wasn’t soldered.

 

[bobyoung53]

A different type of vibe.

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I really miss those things, used to take my corner every gig we did. It was worth it once we got all that stuff set up. Course it's been a few moons. One of my friends has one in his cellar where it's been since he parked it years ago along with the organ, last time I spoke with him he was restoring it.

 

[bobyoung53]

Why does that remind me of the "Holy Hand Grenade"?

Lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade.

And now for something aw you know