Good luck finding someone because I think most people are trying to get rid of them. I see ads for free Hammond (or Conn, etc.) organs all the time. In the five years I have been at my school, we have been offered no less than five free organs (probably more like seven). I also frequently see them in second-hand stores, but I doubt most of them would pick up the item for you.

Look at this site here: https://organservicecompany.com/idorgan.html

If you've got one of the following: A100, B, B2, or B3; C, C2, C3 RT, RT2, RT3 – don't part with it for less thank $5k (since it needs work), seriously. These are still greatly desired by jazz/rock/gospel musicians and produce what has become the Hammond Sound, which no digital instrument can replicate completely. The tone generators, chorus/vibrato, and percussion units in these are all the same; the only difference is between 32 (R) and 25 (A/B/C( pedals and whether they have internal speakers (A does, others don't).

If you've got an M3 or M100, these have the same guts as the B3/A100/C3, and are particularly usable as a quasi-portable instrument for rock groups. Without the full 61-key manuals, they're less desirable than the A/B/C/Rs, but you could still clear at least $1,000.

The other models are in various ways less desirable than those I named, since they lack some component of the B3.

If you post it here, you may get some bites, or else more advice about where to sell.
https://organforum.com/forums/

Ours in an E3. It is VERY heavy, not easily "dropped off" at church.

I'd use it for firewood before I'd pay anyone to take it away.

Where's Ethel Smith when you need her?

Put it out on the curb, wrap it in clear plastic like it is really worth something and stand back.

Seriously.

If asked about it, say you used it, it needed work and probably needs some more but you just can't take it with you.

Preferably, hide when people stop to see it. And it will disappear.

If you're near a marina, post a note there. People might be looking for boat anchors.

...looking for boat anchors.

Speaking of anchors. A once-upon-a-time friend who was a Wicks representative told of how, after WWII, the US military had hundreds of these 'organs' which had been used at field chapels and services on their hands. No longer needed, they were taken out and dumped at sea (the Pacific Ocean) by the US Navy. My friend should have known what he was talking about - he was in the navy and saw it.

Before recycling any instruments as boat anchors, artificial reefs, etc., please contact your state EPA for info on any applicable environmental regulations.

I would like a b3 please

Do not dump it…

Do not scrap it...

It is a prized possession for an entirely different genre of music… And I would like to have one… PM me if you have one,

Unfortunately, the E3 does not have tone wheel generators...

We are ratcheting up our efforts to sell our house which means getting rid of this organ. What about eBay? Anyone know of anyone who's bought or sold an organ that way?

I once put a piano out on the curb in a large northeastern city. Everyone who walked by played it, and finally after dark someone came by, got very excited that it was free, pushed it off down the street and I never saw it again!

I don’t know how they moved it down the street on those castor wheels, it made a heck of a racket.

Thanks, we'll give Craigslist a try.

Some of those Hammonds can command a fair price. I remember that we paid $4,000+ for one to go in a school chapel and this was 15 years ago.

Well, jazz, pop music, really weird sounds, and all that, plus it made (makes?) no attempt at all to mimic an organ, nor any claim to being any kind of variety thereof - does this make it a thing in and of itself, having all the integrity of a distinct instrument, say, like the Ondes Martinot??? Or is it a thing below even an organ simulacrum?

@MJO

IMHO it really is a unique instrument unto itself although it really is inseparable from its very famous speaking counterpart, the Leslie tone cabinet. I don’t think I have ever seen music manuscripts by any of its “users” as the music was largely improvisatory in nature. It also is used in a lot of Gospel music. It has a “warm” sound as compared to a lot of electronic instruments and displays an oddly human character when attatched to a particular performer. There were a lot of B3 knockoffs which never attained the full bodied sound of the B which arose chiefly from the use of tone generators. I used to practice Bach’s organ works on it, although it really was ounly for gaining accuracy of technique.

I never tire of hearing good B3 afficianados.

Basic tutorial

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8S2DrZTcluQ#

Hammonds are extremely nice and versatile instruments in their own right, but have little to nothing in common with what we would consider an "organ" sound. Even the best attempts sound like terrible 1950s playing in bad taste, if they sound like our organs at all.

You can, of course, now buy a simulacrum of a b3 the "new b-3". The tonewheels are carefully simulated, the appearance is carefully simulated, I don't know whether the 'Leslies' are different technology. And they simulate the Start switch to give the same momentary surge to the pitch. Lacking the electro-mechanical parts, the instrument is easier to move.

Francis, those Hammonds were some of the most durable instruments I have ever seen. No wonder the army and schools wanted them. Many of them are still playing years after.

a_f_hawkins: the Leslie brand is now also part of Hammond Suzuki. https://hammondorganco.com/

You can get several different new speaker models in varying powers – ones on the same lines as the old Leslies, with actually-rotating horn and drum, or some with no moving parts that attempt to digitally replicate the rotary effect. Hammond-Suzuki and various other companies (Neo comes to mind) also make stand-alone Leslie effect boxes; plug the keyboard/organ/guitar in one end and run the output straight into the soundboard.

I think they still aren’t to the point of matching the sound of a real, vintage tube-amp Leslie physically moving air around. That’s something pretty special and unmatched by other electronic instruments. For the best possible effect, though, I hear one needs 5 Leslies spread across the building, thus far only to be heard at the First Church of Deliverance, Chicago. (Music starts 30” in) https://youtu.be/ANuM5CB-h-U

I posted it on Craigslist and (surprisingly!) got several responses. Looks like we will be getting rid of it soon.

A beautiful ending! Glad it worked out so well!