Re: [Harp-L] 1941 National amp and photos

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Anywhere else this would all be pathetic, but we're all sick here!. Gotta love those old amps!!!

-------------- Original message from john kuzloski <jkuzloski@xxxxxxxxx>: -------------- 


> Where else can I gush? I'm really enjoying the amp I 
> picked up recently. It's like butta (butter that can 
> bark!) I don't have much experience with old amps, 
> so I can't compare it to, for example, an old Champ or 
> PA amp. Photos: 
> 
> http://photobucket.com/albums/c252/wyoharpguy/ 
> 
> The National has a 5U4 cokebottle, 2-6v6's, 2-6SC7's 
> (metal), 2-6J7's (also metal and they take the wired 
> metal cap). It has 2 instrument inputs and a 
> microphone input. No tone control -- but plenty of 
> tone! I'm guessing it has to be close in circuitry to 
> the old PA amps. Any thoughts on that? 
> 
> It has a 12" field coil speaker -- the down-side with 
> that being that you can't (I can't) just pop in a 
> replacement speaker, and I think the speaker has had a 
> little repair (seems like a strip of electrical tape 
> has been put on the cone). But, so what -- it souds 
> great! 
> 
> Sorry I have not graduated to putting mp3's up, but I 
> have recently graduated to putting photos up. 
> 
> Gush, gush, gush. Someone who has access to old 
> National sales brochures found it in a 1941 brochure 
> -- it's a "Concert" model 400 that sold for $100 in 
> 1941. (This one now has a 3-prong plug and some new 
> caps.) 
> 
> --jk 
> 
> 
> 
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