ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: This is a Hammond CV. It's like a B3 except it's older and it doesn't have percussion. As the thing is on, this is how you turn it on when you hit the run switch.

PATRICK OGLE: I'm going to assume you don't play this live.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: I do.

PATRICK OGLE: You do? You bring that live?

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: Yeah. We cut it in half right here.

PATRICK OGLE: Oh. Okay.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: And then we got handles on the side, and we take it to the local shows. They're like getting like good big show usually with only one Leslie. I have this, you know, which has two keyboards and they sound awesome.

[ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA PLAYING SOME LICKS ON THE HAMMOND CV]

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: They sound like they' re supposed to versus a stupid little keyboard, a digital organ, which is a Viscount, and it sucks. But we have to take it to out-of-town shows because it's too big to bring. It was invented by Laurens Hammond, and it was invented in 1935. It uses an electromagnetic, or it uses a metal wheel with notches on it. It spins at a fixed speed so that the notches are picked up by an electromagnetic like pickup to produce a certain like tone which would be called the tonewheel. So, this particular note [PLAYS A C], this is its own frequency. And then they've continued. I think they made the last tonewheel B3 in '76, so from '35 to '76 they made them. This one's a late '40s, I bought it for $100 at a church because it didn't work, and I replaced the switch for $15, and that works and it's my best sounding organ.

PATRICK OGLE: At least they were made. I mean what were these -- These are not -- I don't -- You did see things like this a lot. I don't know if this exact one but in churches and they were kind of consumer products. They were like made like to--

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: For home.

PATRICK OGLE: For homes. Yeah.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: For home entertainment. Yeah.

PATRICK OGLE: Yeah.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: Yeah.

PATRICK OGLE: And they wouldn't have been played through a Leslie in that case.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: No. They would have.

PATRICK OGLE: They would have?

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: Well, Leslies weren't made by the Hammond Company. Laurens Hammond apparently didn't like the Leslie sound, but everybody who -- The dealerships matched him up because they make such a great tone [PLAYS A CHORD]. The sound of it was obviously awesome. So, it's just such a great sound. Eventually, later on Hammond bought Leslie and started making them and matched them up, you know, with themselves. That's what this model is. This is a much later model. This was a '70s model, and these are both in the '50s.

This particular organ has gone through a lot because it was in a church that was then closed and condemned for several years and then later used as a music venue. So, people had set tons of drinks and beers all over it and everything, and so it's not in the best shape. I don't care about beating it up too much.

I got another one at my house that's in a real nice condition. It's a C2, the model like one model later than this in the '50s, early '50s.

PATRICK OGLE: So, this one would have been like a late '40s model.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: Yeah.

PATRICK OGLE: Okay.

ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA: Yeah. I think up to '49 I think is when they made the CV. The other one is like a '52 or '53 and it's like, you know, in a much nicer condition. I keep it in my basement. I'm not going to move it. Because, you know, these things are made so well but obviously there's a limited number out there and there's going to be less and less continuing, so any of this stuff that I can get a chance to like I'll pick it up because it's only going to go up in value.