Re: [Harp-L] Kalamazoo vs. Gibson Skylark

[Greg Heumann <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott -

Around the time I first started rebuilding Kalamazoo's, I encountered  
a Gibson Skylark that was nearly identical to a brown face model 2  
Kalamazoo and the circuit was indeed the same. I'm pretty sure the  
model was GA-5. I then checked into several Gibson GA-5 Skylarks and  
NONE that I could find had that circuit, but I did encounter more than  
one other variant. I stopped looking. But I was always a little  
curious.....

/Greg

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> From: Scott Hicks <dscotthicks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: February 17, 2010 6:35:52 PM PST
> To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Kalamazoo vs. Gibson Skylark
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> A couple of months ago, in an ebay listing for a Kalamazoo Model 2,  
> the seller mentioned that he heard the Kalamazoo amp used the same  
> circuit as one of the Gibson Skylark models.  I managed to find  
> online somewhere, I don't know where, a list of Skylark models with  
> tube lineups and one of them did indeed have the same lineup as the  
> Kal.  I'm not enough of an electronics guy to even know if two  
> schematics would match up, just wondering if anyone else has done  
> the comparison or even heard of this.