Leslie Tone Cabinets

Finish walnut dimensions 38 3 4 high 31 wide 18 deep weight 144lbs.

Leslie tone cabinets.

In production march 1947 to december 1950 the er 20 tone cabinet is electrically equivalent to the dr 20 tone cabinet. It emulated hammond s dxr 20 tone cabinet which used moving drums but only produced amplitude modulation not frequency modulation. The control switch was simply a choice between off and tremolo. Leslie parts leslie motors belts grommets motors horn speaker hammond leslie metal connector cap part 505 137457 122 amp restoration kit upper motor middle bracket connection cables sockets female upper belt for 122 lower belt for 122.

The leslie tone cabinet was built by don leslie in 1940. For those of you unfamiliar with these wooden behemoths leslies are speaker cabinets made of solid wood with louvers to let the sound out of the top and bottom and with rotors that spin and throw the sound out into the room. The first model of leslie produced was the 30a. Model 122xb the classic leslie speaker made to don leslie s original recipe same as it has been since 1941.

The rototron is designed to specifically emulate the leslie 122 and 147 cabinets. This two speed speaker uses a traditional tube amplifier with a heavy duty driver in the horn and special design 15 woofer for the bass rotor. While many of pigtronix s contemporaries provide a number of parameters to expand on the idea of a leslie the rototron has that authentic leslie sound in spades.