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Supro Res-O-Glas resonator guitar Since Valco's demise a number of manufacturers have issued copies or derivatives of Valco instrument and amplifier models. Eastwood Guitars produces a variety of reissue Airline guitars, [ 7 ] as well as at least one Supro model, [ 8 ] though all of the former semihollow Res-O-Glas models are now wood solidbodies.
Supro was also a premium brand of amplifiers, [1] being also the first to produce a combo amp with reverb. [1] Supro amps built from the 1930s to the 1950s were regarded for their sound for rock records. [4] The brand was revived in 2013, having reintroduced a line of vintage inspired guitars and amplifiers since then. [5]
His white Supro Ozark was from his father, who purchased it from Myers Music shop in Seattle in 1958. It was the first electric guitar Hendrix owned. Hendrix's first gig was with an unnamed band in the Jaffe Room of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch, but they fired him between sets for showing off. [ 2 ]
Mesa-Boogie Mark IV, a guitar combo amplifier. A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.
Ace Tone TOP-1. Ace Electronic Industries Inc., or Ace Tone, was a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, including electronic organs, analogue drum machines, and electronic drums, as well as amplifiers and effects pedals.
The 1959 (Marshall's identifying numbers are not years of manufacture), produced from 1965 to 1976 (when it was replaced by the 2203 "Master Volume"), [1] is an amplifier in Marshall's "Standard" series. [2] It was designed by Ken Bran and Dudley Craven after The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend asked Marshall for a 100 watt amplifier. [3]
An instrument amplifier is used with musical instruments such as an electric guitar, an electric bass, electric organ, electric piano, synthesizers and drum machine to convert the signal from the pickup (with guitars and other string instruments and some keyboards) or other sound source (e.g, a synthesizer's signal) into an electronic signal ...
The company was founded in 1988 by Mike Zaite, a.k.a. Dr. Z. Zaite grew up the child of a television repairman and learned about vacuum tubes at an early age. [1] He played the drums, and started producing tube amplifiers in his Cleveland, Ohio, shop while maintaining his day job as a medical electronic technician at G.E. [2] As the son of a TV repair shop owner, Zaite learned the ropes at the ...