That's where in my opinion you choose what you want.
Personally I like Bb baris.
In Hammond organs (i'm a hammond organist) people do nasty things like that:
They chop them to make them portable. But where is the fun of playing a hammond organ unless you ride it? And this thing looks awful to me.
If portability is an issue then there nice portable clones that do the job, for example Crumar Mojo
which does the job better and it has a personality of it's own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrpKiB9Fa94
It's a shame to modify historic (20+ years old) in such a way when there are people that search for them and can't find them.