[Harp-L] Mystery amp question and sound clip



Hi guys,
I just picked up yet another amp last weekend at a yard sale for $20 (actually a buddy called me up because he saw it and thought I'd want it for that , glad I did). Anyway, no manufacturer, the speaker is a 1957 (or 47 but I think 57) Quam. Anybody seen something like this? Just curious. I got it with a Supro steel but I don't think it's a Valco product.
I think it sounds pretty cool as a harp amp. two old octal preamps, one 6v6 and a 5Y3. Since I'm on spring break from school and just started messing around with Audacity free software I thought I'd stick up a little example of how it sounds using an old brown shure with a crystal element (sitting on top of amp). The playing is of course just me messing around, at least one flub I should have edited out if I knew how to do it, intro to an old Cotton tune and the rest is just some random little licks. No effects used and no animals harmed during the recording although my dog did go into another room. Actually, the recording itself came out OK with just an SM58 some distance away from the amp since I wasn't using a mixer. The speaker is definitely going out, you might hear some of that in the sound clip. And the tubes, caps, etc are all original or at least pretty old , I didn't swap anything out yet.
Pictures of amp:
http://members.cox.net/lkally/amp1.jpg
http://members.cox.net/lkally/amp2.jpg


The mp3 of me playing it is:
http://members.cox.net/lkally/amptest.mp3
I'll leave this up for a couple of weeks as it takes up a fair amount of my limited webspace.






This archive was generated by a fusion of Pipermail 0.09 (Mailman edition) and MHonArc 2.6.8.