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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2015 17:39:16 GMT
I think I may well have done. Scrolling through amps on ebay today, I came across this and I'm 99% sure I had this model when I was about 15. The only pic I have is this grainy one of me circa 1980, colour looks a bit different probably 'cos of the stage lighting. I moved it on pretty quick for a loud tranny - I didn't start playing blues until a year or so later. It may well have sounded lovely, but not when I was trying to do black sabbath type stuff at the time... TT   (oh and that's probably a pack of players no6 on top of it - don't tell my mother...) |
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Post by oldnick on Jul 27, 2015 20:08:06 GMT
Don't tell me - You were saving the players no 6 vouchers for your next amp :-)
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Post by looper on Jul 27, 2015 23:30:11 GMT
I had an amp that looked just like that 20 years ago. Think it was a Zenta, and a bit of furious googling turned up a site suggesting that they were made by the same crowd as the National amps. Blast from the past.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 10:15:20 GMT
I had a 1958 Gibson ES-335 that I sold for $400. Does that count?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 11:37:07 GMT
Oh yeah, anything like that would be 'good' to hear about.
If Mark Makin (or someone like mitchfit) has any more info on this amp, I'd like to know. I guess its a bottom of the range model, but maybe not. I had the two 8" speaker cab with it too.
TT
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Post by Mark Makin on Jul 28, 2015 12:58:51 GMT
Your wish is my command O Deuce! It's a GA920P made in (I think) 1970. Here is the catalogue page for the following year. Same amp just painted all black now. It sold for $129.95 and was a piggyback solid state 45 watt amp (38 watts peak). The amp was 6x16x8 inches and the cabinet with twin 8" speakers was 24x16x8 inches. There was a matching bass amp (GA927PB) issued at the same price. There was only one amp that was bigger (GA960) which was 125 watts and padded and quilted like those old sofas (like Kustom amps used to be) These are not really Nationals. As you can see they are marketed by Strum & Drum of Wheeling, Illinois (Chicago). These people acquired the distribution of Japanese guitars and solid state electronics branded as Normas, Torodor and Ensenada. National was also added as a brand name when it became available after the Valco bankruptcy sale in 1968. It was bought and owned by Kaman electronics (Ovation) and licensed for use to Strum and Drum. Attachments:
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Post by mitchfit on Jul 31, 2015 15:03:14 GMT
deuce,
the bad news--- really busy week, first chance to web surf today. hence non-response.
the good news-- Mark's answer was more informative [approx 12X] than i could have made.
mitchfit
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