Hammond Organ Links

My Hammond Chord Organ page has attracted a fair amount of questions about chord organs and Hammonds in general. While I'm not the world's foremost on the topic of Hammonds, there are many fine Hammond-related webpages out there. There are also quite a number of mailing lists and other venues for discussing Hammonds, so I've made a separate list of Hammond Mailing Lists (etc.). You'll find a lot of experts out there, plus a lot of people with opinions.

Here are a few pages I've found useful or amusing:

The Hammond pages at theatreorgans.com. (lots of information, images, and links here, but not very well organized)
The Hammond-Leslie FAQ at theatreorgans.com (a well-organized and fairly comprehensive guide to Hammonds and Leslies)
The Hammond/Leslie Age Determination list
Hammond Web Ring home (lots of Other People's Pages)
HammondWiki home -- a collaborative write-your-own approach
Everything Hammond, from hammondb3organ.com -- well, not quite everything, but lots of useful stuff nonetheless
Premier Organ Center's Hammond Collection
Hammond-Suzuki, the worthy successor to both Hammond and Leslie, worldwide page
Hammond-Suzuki's US page.
The Musical Instruments Technical Association (MITA)
Organ Service Company Inc. official supplier of parts and manuals for old Hammonds
Goff Professional, supplier of Hammonds to the stars, and featuring the world's only drawbar-controlled web page.
BB Organ, another supplier of things Hammond, with a start/run interface.
Captain Foldback, a source for many schematics and other good information
The CloneWheel Page, a source of information of things that sound like a tonewheel Hammond, but aren't necessarily a Hammond and are certainly not a tonewheel.
120 years of Electronic Music, including citations for the Hammond Organ, the Novachord and the Solovox
The A Whiter Shade of Pale homepage. (Just what is a "light fandango", anyway?) See also Matthew Fisher's homepage, wherein Fisher reveals that he used a lowly spinet, an M-102, to record this rock classic, and updates us on legal wranglings over AWSOP's authorship.

Disclaimer: no endorsement of any of the commerical sites is implied, but I believe all of them are upstanding citizens of the Hammond world, versus all the thievin' varmints out on eBay. (Dubious eBay Hammond items are a favorite topic on many of the Hammond mailing lists (etc.).)

As the list indicates, the Hammond pages at the theatreorgans.com website is a good starting point. This site includes the Hammond-Leslie FAQ, which has lots of useful reference information.

Got a favorite site? Drop a note to the author: CLONK