This is a Hammond M3 from legendary Hammond B3 modder Bill Beer. I don't have any way of knowing what date it was manufactured by Hammond and what day it was rebuilt into the new custom Tolex enclosure by Bill beer, but my feeling from inspecting it inside and out is that it was probably made by Hammond in the early 1960s and probably repackaged like this by Keyboard Products between 1980 and 1982. This comes from the 1980s collection of a super famous pop band that had 3 Billboard Hot 100 #1 hits between 1985 and 1987. Yes, three of them (even Jackson didn't have 3 in that period). You will never in your life have a chance to get one of these from an artist with more 80s success than that. Fully folded up for transport, this measures: 43.5" wide x 33" long x only 10.5" high Those dimensions include the side handles and the folded legs underneath. This is as far as a genuine Hammond tone wheel organ can possibly be. Many special modifications and circuits were added by Keyboard Products, but I don't know how to identify most of them and I don't know how to use some of them, either. I am the Synclavier man, my expertise is in extremely high end antique digital music audio systems, not tone wheel organs nor the multitude of custom modifications that were done to them almost 40 years ago. Two major circuits are two single sided printed circuit boards that appear to be circa 1980-82, one in the center of the base and one in the rear near all the special jacks. But I can point out a few modifications I noticed and you can see them by looking at the photos: 1) The instrument has been housed in a new Tolex covered wood enclosure. This not a home hack job "chop" done with a tree trimming saw and some black spray paint, this is a 100% professional job done by the greatest of all time, Bill Beer/Keyboard Products in Los Angeles. 2) It has four distinctive dark metal handles to carry it and to load it and to set it up, with two of them set in the up and down position and two of them set sideways as if to help to set this into a dolly style road case that has the dolly base with wheels on bottom and a pullover top. You can see many crappy chop jobs for sale on the internet that have the factory wood case cut down and holes cut on the side to bolt on cheap imported flight case handles of the type you can buy on eBay. That is not what this is. These are dark metal handles that you will only see on the very very very very very few original custom Bill Beer jobs. If you look for photos of Bill Beer Hammonds on the internet, you can see a very few that have the same type of handles. None of the homemade jobs do. 3) It has the Keyboard Products Los Angeles name plates on the front and on the back. 4) It has four extremely heavy duty folding chrome steel legs underneath. These lock into place when it is stood up, and there are metal tabs to secure them underneath as you can see in my last photo. Again, the garbage homemade jobs don't have this, they tell you to set it on top of a PA system or something like that. Also please note that even though this is as light and as portable as a genuine Hammond tone wheel organ can possibly be, it is still a very heavy instrument of almost 250 pounds by my estimation, and setting it up is extremely difficult. I was able to set it up for the photos all by myself, but I was using $3,500 worth of special equipment, a portable forklift. Normally I think it would take two strong people to hold it three feet off the ground and one to climb under it and work very quickly to snap the legs out, if it had to be set on a scratchy concrete surface like I did. If it was done in the house on carpet, it could possibly be done by one person on its side and then tipped up, but I would prefer to have two or three people to do it without special equipment. I can load it and unload it myself but it is definitely difficult. 5) It has a custom I/O panel on the back side. I don't know what any of it is except that I think that one of them is a jumper plug put into a pitch bend jack to allow use without any pedals or external equipment, and I figured out through a very long process of elimination that the upper left 1/4" jack is the output with user adjusted reverb and that's what I plugged into the amplifier to test it. One of the multi pin connectors on the back of might be to connect to a Leslie cabinet. One of them is definitely a male AC three prong connector that connects to the special heavy duty Belden power cord that is included but not shown in the photos because the eBay photos only allowed 12 photos and I didn't want to waste one of them on a picture of a power cord. One of them is a fuse holder. I'm not sure about the rest of them. 6) It has that distinctive aluminum channel on the front edge below the lower manual. This is a distinctive Bill Beer thing, I think some people call it an inverted rail. 7) It has very good sounding spring reverb built in. 8) It has a special circuit and control in the front left control panel for volume amount. 9) It has a special circuit and control in the front left control panel for bass frequency amount. 10) It has a special circuit and control in the front left control panel for treble frequency amount. 11) It has a special circuit and control in the front left control panel for the percussion amount. 12) It has a special circuit and control in the front left control panel for the spring reverb amount. 13) It has a special circuit and control in the front center control panel, a red switch that goes from side to side, I do not know what function this has. 14) It has a special circuit and control in the front right control panel, a push on/push off chrome switch that switches the AC power on and off. 15) It has a red LED that seems to indicate that the power has been turned on. This is almost impossible to see in the photos. It is very near the far upper right key of the upper manual. When the power is on that is lit up in red. This is mounted on a small PCB that is mounted behind the wood. Almost all of the pieces that you see in the front control area are wood that are painted black. It is impossible to see in the photographs, but it says Hammond very faintly in the center above the keys. It's like black on black. 16) It has a special circuit and control in the front right control panel, a momentary black switch that goes from front to back, it has to do with starting the organ when you first turn it on but I can't tell which of these two switches 16 and 17 are which. This shows how inexperienced I am with electromechanical instruments. 17) It has a special circuit and control in the front right control panel, an on/off black switch that goes from front to back, it has to do with starting the organ when you first turn it on but I can't tell which of these two switches 16 and 17 are which. 18) It has a special circuit and socket on the bottom side that you can see in the last photo,, I do not know what function this has, but it could be another output to a Leslie cabinet and this might have individual outputs for the upper and lower manuals, I don't know. It just has multiple sockets that to me look like what connects to a Leslie the cabinet, though I know that some of those might go to pitch Bend controls or foot pedals that I don't have. Please see my other listing for an original Leslie cabinet cable with connectors that were replaced by Alltek Organ. I was told that this had been rebuilt by an organ shop. I did not get any further details about that. Completely independent of this, I found paperwork much later and saw one page of what appeared to be a multiple-page receipt from Alltek Organ and Keyboard in 2007, it said, "General check. Organ has been sitting unused for 10 years. Replaced starter switch. Oiled tone generator. Installed 7 pin jumper plug in pitchbender socket. Plugged volume pedal to socket. Reinstalled loose lamp in expression pedal photocell assembly. Tightened pins for Associated lamp socket. Replaced broken key for upper manual G#3 key. Replaced plugs and endcaps on Leslie cable. Intermittent harmonics, cleared as keys were exercised, remaining will probably clear up with use, otherwise, more extensive service may be needed." For more than 15 years, I have made my living restoring high-end electronic musical instruments, that is what I am known throughout the world for and that is my association with the artist that owned this, but what I could see on this page one of the receipt is something quite a lot less than what I would call rebuilt. But this is only one receipt that I have seen from the lifetime of this instrument and I have only seen one page of it. So I can't speculate as to what other work might have been done on it at the same time as this service job ordering other service jobs it had in its lifetime. But this is exactly the work that I have confirmed and it was in 2007. My experience playing this organ was much the same as the tech wrote in the notes, the keys that were a little scratchy or didn't have the full harmonics when first pressed mostly cleared up, about 80% of the problems I noticed went away after 5 minutes of playing. This is why I estimate that someone should play it a few weeks before spending money having it serviced. Unless you have money to burn and you completely service everything you buy anyway. Same thing for the motor starting, I clearly don't understand how to properly start up an organ like this using two switches. But as an inventor and product designer myself I can't imagine a single product that needs two switches operated with a special timing sequence to get it going. But I guess that's how these are. It took me a little experimentation to get it playing. If you are local in Los Angeles and extremely serious about purchasing this if you can only see it and play it, and I mean serious as if you have the entire stated price of the unit as cash in hand, I can take the time to take you and set it up and let you inspect it and play it. That will take two hours of my time and that's not what I want to do, but I'm willing to do it if required. This is an offer to inspect it before the eBay purchase only. If it is already purchased, it will be shipped to the buyer or prepared for local pickup for the buyer. An eBay purchase is a committed contract so I don't need to set up demonstrations for merchandise that is already contracted in a sale. Free local pickup in Los Angeles. I live in Los Feliz and most of the gear is in my warehouse space nearby and the buyer can go with me to get it if I haven't brought it back yet. Another one of these is not going to be found. The very rare special type AC power cord is included but not shown in the photos. Nothing else is included. You can pay by PayPal or you can pay with cash in person on pickup. I have vast shipping expertise and Synhouse has exported electronic music machines to customers in 39 countries over the last 17 years. I can get it there safely. Due to the fragile nature and the extreme heavy weight of this genuine tone wheel organ, this will be custom crated or boxed with solid foam used inside. A large amount of materials will go into this. The shipping method shown will be Motor Freight in USA, you will need to pick it up at a terminal in your area which must be a major city. It will be boxed or crated and then palletized. Or if it is close enough to make it worth the drive in the company truck, I will just provide cartage for it myself wrapped in padded blankets. I have the ability to move this over staircases with my special equipment. The photos were taken after moving it over two flights of stairs. For shipment overseas, it will be packed the same way and sent by ocean freight, the buyer must pick it up at a terminal in a major city and clear customs themselves. I have considerable experience in both shipping methods, doing many shipments of each type every year for decades. For shipping, the eBay listing shows the correct price for international shipment and for USA shipment in the lower 48 states except for California. If you want to buy this and you are in California, I can reduce the shipping to $200 if you can send me a message before you make the purchase and I can change the price and you can immediately make the purchase after that. If you make the purchase without me making this change, eBay and PayPal are going to take 13% of that shipping money so you will have already lost the chance for that offer. You must write to me first if you are in California and want this shipped to you for $200 instead of the rest of USA 48 state rate shown in the eBay price. I am in the San Francisco Bay Area occasionally, most of my time in the north part of the East Bay, it is possible that I could bring them with me to San Francisco Eastbay for a very very small amount of money if you were a little bit patient to wait for it to get there. $75 would be okay for that. I could deliver it anywhere in LA City for $50, or $65 in most of LA County except the desert. $80 to Thousand Oaks or Westlake Village area or to Orange County. This item is part of a tremendous collection of outstanding instruments and audio equipment from a major rock group. The gear is being thoroughly inspected and tested and checked over and serviced and restored piece by piece. I will probably end up keeping about half of the collection here for myself, then possibly later releasing a few more pieces. About half of it will be sold as soon as it can be serviced and photographed and listed for sale. This was a massive collection weighing 3,200 pounds. There are six keyboards, 59 rack units of samplers, synthesizers, audio processors, and workstations, two mixers, two monitors, and some absolutely badass speaker cables. Also please note that in my BUY IT NOW listings, I am more likely to take a lower offer only if it is very soon, like in the next day or two or three days. After that, I am less likely to accept any best offers below the stated listing price and I will leave these exceptional items on eBay in a series of 30-day listings until sold. Thank you. Synhouse accepts Paypal. Additionally, Synhouse has accepted payments directly by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express for 15 years now.