Any ideas on this one? No markings anywhere but the emblem on the grille. 2x15, not sure what speakers are inside.
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Mystery cabinet
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Bets are on CTS drivers. I seem to recall through the fuzz of years (when I was young) Kutom was contracted by Gibson for a short lived entry into Bass amplification. Matching amp head was contracted from Thomas Organ based on the USA Solid State 100 watt Vox they (T.O.) dumped on the market. I remember trying something that looked like that and it was about on par with Wards Airline and Sears Silvertone offerings? I wasn't easily impressed back then and that never ended. The cab may work okay, just not handle a lot of power.
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My WAG is JTG out of Nashville TN. I've only seen one of the archtop guitars they used to import in the late 70s/early 80s, but the logo looked very close or the same.
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Nope, nothing we ever did!
I'm guessing it's 'GJ', for George Jefferson.
We're moving on up
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Almost certainly CTS. I never liked them in anything I met.
Logo on this guitar looks pretty close:
https://reverb.com/item/16136285-vi...een-12-string-guitar-original-hard-shell-case
https://reverb.com/item/16136285-vi...een-12-string-guitar-original-hard-shell-case
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My friend's so called JTG Nashville guitar's logo was pretty similar to that, FWIW. Back in the day we called it a "Giovanni Johnson", interesting to see now what it apparently actually was!
I think we have a weiner! The seller said he sold it to a shop but bought it back from them. He said 'they had it labeled as Juilo something-something, I can't remember...'
So this makes me think it's a guitar cab. They didn't make basses as far as I can tell from a 5 min. search.
I like a google hunt every now and again...
Here, the google image search allows you to focus in on part of a picture...the logo...and you get results from that. It came back as John Giulietti
Then "John Giulietti (speaker, amp etc)" text search gets more results but I think it's referring to the same person (Julio)...an accordion maker
From the examples and evolution of their appearance, I wouldn't be surprised if someone liked the badge and put it on that cabinet
etc
Here, the google image search allows you to focus in on part of a picture...the logo...and you get results from that. It came back as John Giulietti
Then "John Giulietti (speaker, amp etc)" text search gets more results but I think it's referring to the same person (Julio)...an accordion maker
From the examples and evolution of their appearance, I wouldn't be surprised if someone liked the badge and put it on that cabinet
etc
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This one led to some interesting history (grain of salt, google patchwork history). First, it appears that importing and making amps for accordions was a thing for American amp makers. The Giulietti Accordion Company was founded in New York in 1923 by Luigi (Louis) Giulietti, and Italian born accordion reed-maker whose parents had created the innovation of the steel accordion reed.
Giulietti rebranded a number of amps over time, including Ampeg, Hilgen, Magnatone and Sano. Luigi's son who took control of the company (1950?) took a momentary deeper swerve into the guitar market. Interestingly, Sano is the company founded by Stanley Michaels following the Michael-Hull Electronics Labs split. Because Giulietti was simply rebranding/rebadging amps, they are identifiable by maker over time (e.g., 1967 Sano on the left and 1961 Ampeg Jet J-12 on the right).
I didn't find a timeline but it appears that Ampeg was the source from 1958 to 1961, and Sano was the amp maker from the mid to late 60s to ? (I couldn't find when they stopped rebranding amps but there are no models of note past 1967). Since the logo in question is from the Sano period, and there's no indication that there was ever a Giulietti branded 2x15 bass (or accordion) cabinet or a Sano cabinet that looks like that (as well as the position of and two bigass screws in the badge), my best guess is that someone stuck that badge on a random cabinet.
Giulietti rebranded a number of amps over time, including Ampeg, Hilgen, Magnatone and Sano. Luigi's son who took control of the company (1950?) took a momentary deeper swerve into the guitar market. Interestingly, Sano is the company founded by Stanley Michaels following the Michael-Hull Electronics Labs split. Because Giulietti was simply rebranding/rebadging amps, they are identifiable by maker over time (e.g., 1967 Sano on the left and 1961 Ampeg Jet J-12 on the right).
I didn't find a timeline but it appears that Ampeg was the source from 1958 to 1961, and Sano was the amp maker from the mid to late 60s to ? (I couldn't find when they stopped rebranding amps but there are no models of note past 1967). Since the logo in question is from the Sano period, and there's no indication that there was ever a Giulietti branded 2x15 bass (or accordion) cabinet or a Sano cabinet that looks like that (as well as the position of and two bigass screws in the badge), my best guess is that someone stuck that badge on a random cabinet.
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