A load of regional dance music styles in both Europe and the US use the accordion, so I guess accordionists were regularly having to fill large dance halls in the days before decent PA systems, even if they weren't pushing the volume to extremes like the rock n' roll guys. I played for a while with an accordionist who was still into working that way, and it turns out an accordion with a crude internal mic through a 100 watt tube amp is about as brutal in the volume wars as many guitarists I've played with!
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Any idea what this Ampeg flip-top actually is?
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A load of regional dance music styles in both Europe and the US use the accordion, so I guess accordionists were regularly having to fill large dance halls in the days before decent PA systems, even if they weren't pushing the volume to extremes like the rock n' roll guys. I played for a while with an accordionist who was still into working that way, and it turns out an accordion with a crude internal mic through a 100 watt tube amp is about as brutal in the volume wars as many guitarists I've played with!
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Are you sure it's a 4x12? Looks like the outline of a couple of 15s there but my eyes aren't that good...
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Yeah its s 4x12 with the original "Ampeg" labelled speakers. Folks
It works perfectly and folks who've heard say it sounds amazing. And it is in incredible condition. One owner since 1973.
My issue is the size and weight. My wife and I are downsizing to do the tiny house thing in retirement. She'd prolly kill me for bringing that thing home.
It works perfectly and folks who've heard say it sounds amazing. And it is in incredible condition. One owner since 1973.
My issue is the size and weight. My wife and I are downsizing to do the tiny house thing in retirement. She'd prolly kill me for bringing that thing home.
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I kinda-sorta remembered that after I posted -- as it turns out, he wasn't needed in this case anyway. Thanks for the reminder.
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Having mixed monitors for Zydeco bands, I can attest to the veracity of that statement. Clifton Chenier was as loud as Jimi Hendrix from my perspective. Even now, the Zydeco and Cajun dance bands I know of come equipped to fill the room -- the concept of having a big PA do the work is relatively uncommon. Laissez les bon temps rouler!!
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I'd buy that. When you downsize you can flip it, @Phlipper
Paging Mr. @beans-on-toast
Paging Mr. @beans-on-toast
This seems like all one needs to consider. It's a rare bird and an interesting relic -- a worthwhile addition to a collection, but just because something is rare doesn't make it valuable. Given this new fact recently introduced into evidence, I move to give it a pass. Let some other sucker...er, uh...vintage enthusiast pay the freight on this one. Just my .02, of course. Thanks for sharing the pic.
Famous aphorism: Happy wife, happy life. What's unsaid is the opposite is even more true.
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Famous aphorism: Happy wife, happy life. What's unsaid is the opposite is even more true.
I can certainly attest to the last sentence, having been thru a divorce or two. Or three. Oh wait ... d@mn ... four. I forgot about The Crazy Cuban Psychologist.
It's a good sounding guitar amp. The cabinet has triangular cutouts, much in the same way that the Bill Fitzmaurice Simplexx has.
As for rock accordion.
Yes, that’s what the world needs, louder accordions
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Yep ... It was a plug-in SS rectifier. He says he has the tube for it. Didn't need sag for a bass amp. Lol.
It’s interesting that some instruments are not played left handed. Stringed instruments such as a violin for example. There aren’t left handed pianos. I’m left handed but the music school that got me started taught me to play right handed. I didn’t learn about left handed bass till I saw the Beatles.
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That's kinda interesting. Didn't realize there were no left-handed violins. My stepdaughter is left-handed and a violinist who went to high school at the Interlochen Academy for classical music. Never really noticed she played rightee.
My wife is also a leftee but tried to learn bass and now cello, both playing right-handed. I almost restrung the cello so she could play leftee.
My wife is also a leftee but tried to learn bass and now cello, both playing right-handed. I almost restrung the cello so she could play leftee.
In an orchestra, you don't want bows colliding. So they all move in the same direction, everyone plays right handed.
