The price I listed is what they seem to sell for locally after being serviced. IMHO, that Hammonds best years were also America's best years, with the exception of the depression, which is, interestingly, the era when the Hammond organ business started to take off.Thanks for the comments and advice. It's interesting to me, from a sociological perspective, that Hammond's decline happened at the same time that standards, expectations and social norms in society declined as well. Products were made in the USA because the government stayed out of the way, far fewer ridiculous regulations were imposed back then, (when imposed in later years along with tax hikes eventually either killed businesses or sent the manufacturing overseas), overall it was more profitable along with superior quality control to keep the jobs right here.

Business and manufacturing in the USA were doing well. The US society had high standards, considered 'normal' at the time, and Hammond had high standards.

Sure Hammond did well because the organs were all about healthy family and church socials, enticing people to join in. Hammond organs were all about those values, bringing people together. Many younger people don't understand that this way of life back then was REAL ! Families really did eat together, pray together, and had many healthy social and recreational activities. :-) Just take a look at a Hammond's Times magazine from back in the early 1960's and see what a good majority of the value systems were. That all changed with TV and continued with the web. Back then there was no internet, video games or ipods to consume every square inch of time and brain matter. In fact, an A100 cost $2600 in 1961, MORE than many cars. I guess in the 40s-60s Hammond Organs were a common large-scale purchase for millions of households, like a car or a computer today.

The Gibson guitar wood purchasing lawsuits comes to mind. What IS left of our dwindling mfg here in the US is attacked at every angle. My company is much smaller, and thank goodness because once a product gains a little volume mfg goes straight to China where there are no EPA regs, no unions, no patent trolls, no lawsuits, plenty of government assistance and currency manipulation that makes items cost less than their material costs. As a synth manufacturer, I'm fascinated with the whole Hammond story.

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