From goffmac747@aol.com Fri May 06 12:22:18 2011
Subject:Re: Combos

Hahaha, I know how that feels. No one could fix it... But while the
Contempo worked, it had a great key feel and a passable tone for the
time. It had the ability to rake (tilt) the whole thing up so you could
play it standing up better due to its adjustable chrome stand and it
came with a Fender volume pedal.. Had it drawbars, I wonder how many
they would've sold? Weighed like a mother and it was hard for one guy
to move it without some strain. Couldn't stack anything on it.

Boardplayers today are lucky they have such a wealth of new and mostly
reliable clones, even if we could have used them more back then when
Hammond tone was all over the place. Funny how like Wiley E, the gun
goes off after Roadrunner streaks by ...

-----Original Message-----
From: donniemac88
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 10:10 pm
Subject: [CWSG] Re

My first was a Fender Contempo, too! A local guy sold it to me cheap in
'72 because all the A notes sputtered (or "motor boated" as the Fender
tech support guy described it) and no one in our rural area of Virginia
could fix it.