Suggestions on my new iron?

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dragonbat13
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Suggestions on my new iron?

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I scored a hammond organ amp. It has a pair of 7591s and a gz34. All made by everrett. It also has three preamp tubes. Here is the best part. It has a seperate reverb driver with two preamp tubes driving a spring reverb!

It is a hammond model K-112

I looked inside and the amp is mint, mint, mint. It is almost too clean to molest. I really don't want to use it if someone would be looking for it. I haven't tested it but I would be suprised if it didn't work.

Heres my questions
1 Should I even consider butchering it? Is it a common amp. I don't know anything about hammond organs

2 What would any of you guys build if you had all this iron?

I have modified amps before but never built one. I do have some electrical background and can read schematics.

I want to build something cool but I don't think I could build a Dumble ODS or something that tricky.

Any Opinions would be great! Thanks!
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Re: Suggestions on my new iron?

Post by David Root »

I think there were lots of these made. Even so I wouldn't lay into it just yet if it's mint. Someone will know more than I do.

7591s are good tubes, used a lot in mid-level hi-fi amps in the '50s and '60s as well as by organ bulidrers. My guess is it would need only minor tweaking to make a very decent guitar amp of about 25W power (if plates are at 450VDC).
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