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Topic: Two interesting old tube amps |
Dennis Smith
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Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2014 1:39 pm |
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These are listed on the musicgoround site for all stories, both are tube amps.
Teisco Checkmate 50, 2 x 15 , 120 watts.
Excelsior Americana Stereophonic, 2 x 10 x 5 tube amp.
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Cartwright Thompson
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Posted 20 Dec 2014 8:46 am
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| The Excelsior Americana Stereophonic looks like it was made by Sano. Probably made for accordian. |
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Jay Fagerlie
From:
Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 8:04 am
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Great amps!
I had a Checkmate 50 w/ a 15" speaker...I wish I still had it.
The Excelsior does look like a Sano...
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Mark Fowler
From:
Minnesota, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 11:55 pm
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I haven't play with the Checkmate but have a great little Teisco Melody amp.
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Giandomenico Fioretto
From:
Italy
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 12:10 pm italian vintage tube amps
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hI hAPPY nEW yEAR --iT IS A Italian VIntage All valve Amps ELKA TX20 and ELKA TX6 -the Vibrato is great -remember some Ry Cooder sound-
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Dennis Smith
From:
Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 2:08 pm
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Mark yours looks new.
Couple of cool looking amps Giandomenico. |
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Mark Fowler
From:
Minnesota, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 11:10 pm
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| Dennis Smith wrote: |
Mark yours looks new.
Couple of cool looking amps Giandomenico. |
The handle is bad and torn fabric/vinyl on most corners but it sounds real nice. I kept the original speaker but replaced it with one of higher wattage and beefier.
Made a vibrato foot switch out of shallow electrical box/cover I had sitting around. Also, reused the old 2-wire electrical cord for the foot switch and wired in 3-prong power cord.
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Chris Rice
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 6:00 am
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Oh man, I miss my Checkmate 50! Mine had replacement speakers and it bore the scars of where someone had tried to wire in a tweeter.
GREAT tremolo on that thing. |
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 10:15 am
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Speaking of Sanos, here's mine. 15" CTS speaker with 2 6BQ5 fixed bias output tubes for about 18 watts, I think. I love the "Jackson Pollack" grill cloth. The Sano script was missing so I appropriated part of an Alfa Romeo script just to confuse people.
Great harmonica and lap steel amp.
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Bob Metzger
From:
Waltham (Boston), MA, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2014 11:32 am
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