Hammond tonewheel organ rapair and maintenance
Hammond stopped producing tonewheel organs in 1975. This means your Hammond organ is now 45+ years old. It’s very reasonalbe to assume it’s not in perfect condition anymore and probably needs a lot of mainteneace. Known symptoms are:
– Hum, hiss and pop and crackle sounds coming from the speakers
– Dull and lifeless sound
– Noisy keys
– Noisy and/or non working drawbars
– Low volume
– Non or incorrect working percussion or vibrato
– Loud mechanical noises from tonewheelgenerator
– Pitch of the Hammond is flat or sharp
To get your Hammond in perfect condition again for service packages are offered. Of course we can also do repairs for you too, scroll below for a pricelist of the most common repairs. All prices apply for B3, C3, RT3, A100 en D100 models and include materials and VAT. Contact us for other models. WE CAN ALSO COME TO YOUR HOME, STUDIO OR CHURCH TO WORK COLLECT YOUR HAMMOND/LESLIE SET OR TO DO SMALL REPAIRS. We charge extra for that.
PLEASE NOTE: We only work on electro-mechanical Hammond organs with tonewheelgenerator. NOT later transistor of digital models, like the Concorde, Aurora, X5, X66, X77, B100, B200 en B3000, XB-serie, XK-serie, SK-serie, etc. DON’T ASK!!
Hammond organ PACKAGE 1 €80,- incl vat
– Oiling tonewheelgenerator
– Fix small defects
Hammond organ PACKAGE 2
B3/C3/RT3/A100 €380,- incl vat
M3 €350,- incl vat
– Oiling tonewheelgenerator
– Fix small defects
– Replace keystripfelts for white keys (up/downstop)
– Cleaning keys ex presets
Hammond organ PACKAGE 3
B3/C3/RT3/A100 €820,- incl vat
M3 €625,- incl vat
– Oiling tonewheelgenerator
– Fix small defects
– Replacing keyboard felts white keys and silencing black key felts
– Cleaning keys incl presets
– Cleaning drawbarcontacts and contactrails
Hammond organ PACKAGE 4
B3/C3/RT3
1955-1957 €2.000,- incl vat
1958-1964 €1.900,- incl vat
1964-1975 €2.050,- incl vat
A100
1959-1964 €2.200,- incl vat
1964-1975 €2.350,- incl vat
M3
1955-1957 €1.775,- incl vat
1958-1961 €1.710,- incl vat
– Oiling tonewheelgenerator
– Fix small defects
– Replacing keyboard felts white keys and silencing black key felts
– Cleaning keys incl presets
– Cleaning drawbarcontacts and contactrails
– Removing GOOEY FOAM in both manuals (1964< only)
– Replacing tonewheelgenerator and vibrato line capacitors (<1964 only)
– Replacing tubes AO28 pre amp (AO29 in M3)
– Replacing electrolytic capacitors AO28 pre amp (AO29 in M3)
– Small rebuild AO28/AoO29 (only some essential caps and resistors)
– Replacing tubes AO39 power amp (A100 serie only)
– Replacing electrolytic capacitors AO39 power amp (A100 serie only)
– Check and fix all ground connections
– Clean inside of the organ
– Adjust expression pedal
– Percussion volume correction
– Vibrato brilliance correction
Hammond organ PACKAGE 5
B3/C3/RT3
1955-1957 €2.825,- incl vat
1958-1964 €2.735,- incl vat
1964-1975 €2.445,- incl vat
A100
1959-1964 €3.025,- incl vat
1964-1975 €2.745,- incl vat
M3
1955-1957 €2.535,- incl vat
1958-1961 €2.470,- incl vat
– Oiling tonewheelgenerator
– Fix small defects
– Replace keystripfelts for white keys (up/downstop)
– Cleaning keys incl presets
– Cleaning drawbarcontacts and contactrails
– Removing GOOEY FOAM in both manuals (1964< only)
– Replacing tonewheelgenerator and vibrato line capacitors (<1964 only)
– Replacing tubes AO28 pre amp (AO29 in M3)
– Replacing electrolytic capacitors AO28 pre amp (AO29 in M3)
– Small rebuild AO28 (only some essential caps and resistors)
– Replacing tubes AO39 power amp (A100 serie only)
– Replacing electrolytic capacitors AO39 power amp (A100 serie only)
– Check and fix all ground connections
– Clean inside of the organ
– Adjust expression pedal
– Percussion volume correction
– Vibrato brilliance correction
– Cleaning vibrato scanner
– Cleaning busbars manuals
Repairs and modifications
At Vintage Instrument Service it is possible to have rapairs and (some) modifications done. See below for a list of the most common repairs for the B3, C3, RT3, A100 en D152 models. Since we aim for authenticity don’t ask us to do exotic mods like making a chop or installing MIDI etc. All prices include materials and VAT.
| Repairs and maintenance | B3/C3/A100/etc |
| Oiling twg | € 35 |
| Repacing keyboard felt strips white keys | € 195 |
| Replacing keyboard felts white keys, silencing black key felts and cleaning all keys incl presets | €595 |
| Cleaning keys ex preset keys | € 100 |
| Cleaning drawbarcontacts and contactrails | € 120 |
| Replacing keycomb felts | € 500 |
| Removing gooey foam manuals (1964< only) ex replacing broken wires | € 600 |
| Cleaning keycontactbusbars manuals | € 600 |
| Removing gooey foam and cleaning busbars manuals (1964< only) ex replacing broken wires | € 775 |
| Replacing vibrato capacitors 1955-1957 | € 220 |
| Replacing vibrato capacitors 1958-1964 | € 150 |
| Cleaning and oiling vibrato scanner | € 220 |
| Zapping vibrato | € 40 |
| Replacing tonewheelgenerator capacitors (<1964 only) | € 300 |
| Replacing AO28 pre amp tubes B3/C3/RT3/A100 | € 260 |
| Replacing AO39 power amp tubes A100 | € 140 |
| Replacing AO29 amp tubes M3 | € 335,- |
| Replacing electrolytic capacitors AO28 pre amp B3/C3/RT3/A100 (original capacitor cans) | € 225 |
| Small rebuild AO28 pre amp B3/C3/RT3/A100 (essential caps and resistors only) <1964 | € 80 |
| Small rebuild AO28 pre amp B3/C3/RT3/A100 (essential caps and resistors only) 1964< | € 60 |
| Replacing electrolytic capacitors AO39 power amp A100 (original capacitor cans) | € 140 |
| Installation Trek II AO28 preamp internal restauration kit | € 800 |
| Zapping percussion | € 35 |
| Modifications | |
| Percussion volume correction | € 30 |
| Vibrato brilliance correction | € 40 |
| 50-60 hz conversion tonewielgenerator, FROM | € 250 |
| FX-loop upper or lower manual (Trek II) | € 325 |
| Installation connectorkit with half moon switches (without parts), FROM | € 80 |
| Installation connectorkit and half moon switches (incl 122 kit), Leslie cable +€100,- FROM | € 325 |
| Installation connectorkit and half moon switches (incl 147 kit), Leslie kabel +€100,- FROM | € 220 |
| Trek II Percussion for pre B3/C3 models (Trek II) | € 475 |
| Trek II Line out for AO28 preamp (B3/C3 etc) (Trek II) | € 220 |
| Trek II Line out for A100/E100/M100 (Trek II) with reverb signal integrated | € 240 |
| Trek II Reverb for A100/B2/B3/C2/C3/RT3 | € 575 |
| Trek II Stringbass for A100/B2/B3/C2/C3/RT3 etc | € 750 |
Other reapairs can probably be done as well for an hour rate (see Rates) excluding any materials. Definitive costs can differ depending on the exact production place, year and condition of the Hammond organ. We can also work on models like the A, BC, B2, D, G, C2, M100, M3, E100 en L100. Contact us for more info.
Vintage Instrument Service can collect your instrument or have it shipped to our workshop. Contact us for more info.
