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__Some considerations for a typical B-3 purchase__
-If you happen to find a B-3, remember that it is at least 34
years old, with a last-model-year (1974) organ, among the hundreds of thousands sold throughout their 30 years of production.
+If you happen to find a B-3, remember that it is at least 36
years old, with a last-model-year (1974) organ, among the hundreds of thousands sold throughout their 30 years of production.
-The average B-3 found in the used-organ market is around 33 years old. The average B-2, C-2 and other older model Hammond approaches 40-50 years old, regardless of the cabinet condition.
+The average B-3 found in the used-organ market is around 33 years old. [edit: obviously this statistic needs revising, but I don't know what would be true these days]
The average B-2, C-2 and other older model Hammond approaches 40-50 years old, regardless of the cabinet condition.
* Be sure of what you are buying. Often a naive seller will not really be aware of what is he or she is selling. What's advertised as a "B-3 with Leslie" may end up being a BV with a Hammond tone cabinet. Check the data on the manufacturer's plates. Compare the features of the organ you are looking at with those features you know to be present (or absent) in that model.
* Examine the overall cabinet (see BobSchleichersUsedOrganRatingScale) as a good indication of the organ's treatment in life up until now. If it's in poor shape, with missing wooden parts, broken keys, etc., consider this in your assessment of the use/abuse to which the organ has been subjected.
