The Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum

HAMMOND

Model M-3

Model M-3

Production Years:
1955 to 1964
Synopsis:
Home style spinet with an internal amplifier and speaker. Mechanical
tonewheel generator. Drawbars-only organ, with no presets of any kind.
Cabinet Size:
Mahogany, Blonde Maple
Manuals:
Two 44-key offset manuals. 12 pedals.
Controls:
9 drawbars upper manual, 8 drawbars lower manual, 1 pedal drawbars.
Other controls on rocker switches. Percussion has four: select (on/off),
volume (soft/normal), harmonic (3rd/2nd), decay (slow/fast). Vibrato has
four: upper (on/off), lower (on/off), select (chorus/vibrato), vibrato depth.
Amp/Output:
11 Watts, 1-12" speaker.
Features:
Mechanical tone generator and vibrato scanner, no harmonic foldback.
Pedal sustain feature, with toe-switch mounted on the expression pedal.