Consequently, there is a strong market for lighter and more convenient ‘clonewheel’ organs, and a variety of manufacturers have tackled this market over the years with varying degrees of success. At more than 140kg (310lbs) these vintage megaliths are just too big and heavy for most players (or their roadies) to want to cart around to gigs, and increasingly they are becoming far too precious, delicate, and valuable as well. However, the earliest B3s have been around for 63 years now and even the youngest are over 40 years old (production ceased in 1974). The Hammond console tonewheel organ and Leslie speaker has been a standard feature across a range of different musical genres for more than 70 years, and that’s a lot of heritage and status, mostly associated with the B3 model that was introduced in 1954 (although the C3 and A10x variants employ exactly the same sound-generating components, and only really differ in their case styling). Is Hammond’s XK-5 the best lightweight ‘clonewheel’ organ money can buy?
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