[HAM] I'm stumped on a model

[gandj]

Hey, lounge lizard here. A friend of my fathers recently purchase a hammond
organ for 30 bucks. Curious of course I checked it out. I didn't have enough
time to remove the backing and see the model plate number but I haven't seen
anything quite like it. It has speakers mounted (inset) on the sides and the
front and it is definetly a spinet. It has a built in percussion unit, and a
million other switches. The switches I remembered were: vibrato celeste and
chorus (I'm not certain if it had scanner), presets like mandolin and
guitar, a switch that said "silent" and something else (memory fails as to
what it was), it had one octave of foot pedals, and an expression pedal,
these eight or so switches beside the lower keyboard I haven't seen before,
drawbars, two three octave keyboards, and a few other things. Oh and it had
this neat light built in that shone from the bottom up on to the music, a
feature I have never seen before. It had the bolder font on the hammond
logo, it had plastic cheekblocks and only one button to start (but it
doesn't sound solid-state) so I know it is mid to late 60s and early 70s.

    The major problem with it is this oscillating hum that is there all the
time (or at least the 10 or so minutes I fooled with it) and it's pretty
overpowering. I wasn't sure if this was the product of the magnetized
filings I always hear about, or if it was more serious than that. When you
turn down the expression pedal (and, consequently, the whole organ) it goes
away. Anyways, if it is a big problem, it's not worth my money (I don't know
how much he's selling it for), if it is a small problem it is "definetly an
exspensive and timely thing to correct, lowers the value of the organ, I'll
be generous and give you 60 bucks" *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*.

When Dino is your role model,
loungin' is your only way to live,
Lounge Lizard