Tube amp questions

[willy3486]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

Yeah but all guitar amps sound like crap if you use them full range. That's too cool, there have got to be very few surviving nearly 90 year old guitar amps! Nice find on the article! I'm surprised only 6W from a pair of 2A3

I rebuilt a amp close to 90 years old that was a 1938 Correct amp that was made in Germany. It was for a music performer that his dad used it in the 40s and 50s to perform "Hawaiian steel Guitar" as he called it. He remembered his dad playing it. I could not find any info on it but was really easy to rebuild without a schematic. I got it going but had to look up Hawaiian steel guitar as I had no idea what it was. When I found some references to it the music was like the music used on the spongebob cartoons. So when he picked it up I played a spongebob soundtrack through it. A very happy man to hear his amp play for the first time in probably 50 years. These older amps have a really neat sound and from the ones I have seen are easier to fix than newer ones.