Hammond B250
These are a few photos of my Hammond B250. Took them in here for sentimental reasons, although the quality is poor due to the Philips Vesta PCV680 webcam that I had to use for shooting.
Update (January 24, 2007)
Today Arnt asked for the volume pedal wiring and connector pinout. See the photos below for help and illustration.
Update (October 14, 2007)
See also Hammond B250 repair and cap replacement.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:03 am
Hey,
I am about to buy this organ. What do you think about this organ. What do you thing is “good” price for it.
Thanks.
Tom
July 25th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Hi Tom,
as for me, I pretty much like the B250 and probably wouldn’t even sell it if I owned “the real thing”. Ok, this is a japanese Nihon-Hammond model and it is driven by custom LSI ICs instead of wheels or tubes, but nevertheless it is clearly one of the better sounding clones available - just play it over a Leslie speaker and it comes to life. If you want “hammondish” organ sound with 2×61 keys and pedal and yet portable then go for it. A good price would be 300 Euro (good condition), I once paid 750 Euro (mint condition).
Kind regards
Hajo
November 7th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Hi folk
I’m very happy to find that, at least, two persons know this organ !
I’d like to buy a B 250 for my daughter.
Can I hope ?
kind regards
January 24th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Good to se other people with the same organ:) My B-250 was the first instrument I bought, and thats where I spent the money-presents for my confirmation. My volume-pedal is broken, some of the cables are loose, and I don’t know where to place which cables. Does anyone of you have any schematics on that, or a photo of the cabels in the pedal-plug?
Arnt in Norway
March 24th, 2007 at 3:27 am
I had a B250 that I used to gig around London in blues bands. They’re decidely unfashionable but I loved mine, I only sold it to raise cash for my A100. Lovely to see some pics again!
July 29th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I’m running an old (and slightly battered) 250, which works quite well, and I love it. It’ll soon be going through a Leslie 825.
:p
Two questions…
1) What its the jack output “STA OUT” for.
2) I have a problem with the ‘Key Click’ which makes a grizzly ‘interference’ noise - a high frequency crackle’ - which pulsates at about 100-102 Hz. The percussive harmonics are a bit distorted too. Anybody had this and know of a fix ?
Hopefully,
Grady
August 13th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Hi Grady,
“STA OUT” is the output of the stationary signal, analogous to “ROT OUT” for the rotary signal and “MIX OUT” for all (mixed) signals. As for the key click noise, I didn’t have this problem yet. Drop me a line if I you need an excerpt scan of the schematic for this section (I won’t scan it completely).
Regards
Hajo