I bought a thing...Guild related

[adorshki]

Beatles "We can work it out" used an accordion in the song.
And I knew a sax player who got more gigs with his accordion than his sax!

AH! I used to think that for years too, but it's actually John on a harmonium:
https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/we-can-work-it-out/

Paul McCartney: vocals, bass
John Lennon: vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, harmonium
George Harrison: tambourine
Ringo Starr: drums

 

[Skywalker]

The traditional Basque music features accordion and the Txiloparta, a xylophone made from large planks of wood and played by two guys with baseball bats It’s actually very cool and amazing to watch being played artfully The Basques are the peoples who have most resisted invasion throughout European history, so perhaps the baseball bats have come in handy there too.

 

[steveintampa]

The traditional Basque music features accordion and the Txiloparta, a xylophone made from large planks of wood and played by two guys with baseball bats It’s actually very cool and amazing to watch being played artfully The Basques are the peoples who have most resisted invasion throughout European history, so perhaps the baseball bats have come in handy there too.

The Basques also gave us Jai Alai

Jai alai | Basque Pelota Sport & Rules | Britannica

Jai alai, ball game of Basque origin played in a three-walled court with a hard rubber ball that is caught and thrown with a cesta, a long, curved wicker scoop strapped to one arm. Called pelota vasca in Spain, the Western Hemisphere name jai alai (Basque “merry festival”) was given to the game

www.britannica.com

We had a Fronton in Tampa up until the late 90's early 2000's. It was a blast to watch and bet on.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Yeah, most non-Fender amps had an accordion input. Guilietti, Cordovox, and quite a few other companies had amps for wheezeboxes. Sonola was Guild's import accordion brand.

Even the recent Fender “Pawn Shop Series” amps like the Excelcior have an accordion input. It’s labeled that way just for vintage styling, but is just a differently circuited input that starts to break up at a higher level than the guitar input. Ithinkit might just be eq’d differently. (Internally)


They say to forget what it says for the input, and try all 3 w/ a guitar. All 3 give slightly different results.

 

[Default]

Can we keep on topic and focus on the hardware? You don't have to delete the posts of accordions, but this is a post about a particular piece of machinery, and it's part of the accumulated knowledge base.
Thanks for understanding!

 

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Even the recent Fender “Pawn Shop Series” amps like the Excelcior have an accordion input. It’s labeled that way just for vintage styling, but is just a differently circuited input that starts to break up at a higher level than the guitar input. Ithinkit might just be eq’d differently. (Internally)


They say to forget what it says for the input, and try all 3 w/ a guitar. All 3 give slightly different results.

Iirc, the accordion input on the Model 60 is a capacitor straight to the grid of the first preamp tube. The signal doesn't get attenuated at all by a resistor.

 

[Default]

Most electric accordions had cheap crystal mikes inside, IIRC.

I suspect those were so low output that you needed almost a direct signal into the preamp to be heard through the amp.

 

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Looking at a Model 60 now, and that is the case. It has a Micamold paper-in-oil cap on the accordion input.

 

[Rocky]

I suspect those were so low output that you needed almost a direct signal into the preamp to be heard through the amp.

I think they are pretty hot, actually . The same type of microphone Chicago blues harmonica guys favored.

 

[Default]

I guess I'll find out when it gets here. It will be interesting to compare the two.

 

[adorshki]

The traditional Basque music features accordion and the Txiloparta, a xylophone made from large planks of wood and played by two guys with baseball bats It’s actually very cool and amazing to watch being played artfully The Basques are the peoples who have most resisted invasion throughout European history, so perhaps the baseball bats have come in handy there too.

I myself have wondered if golf evolved from Gaelic Scots batting rocks off the cliffs onto marauding Viking longboats.
It sure as hell wouldn't have been an efficient method of hunting Haggis.

 

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I asked you not to bring nonsense into a technical thread. I'd hate to have to burn the thread and lose the valid contributions from the membership.

 

[Guildedagain]

quite a few other companies

Sano. This one had a lot of bells and whistles.

 

[Default]

Moved to Amps and Effects.
I'll make a new thread when it arrives and I can make a proper reference post with the M40T.

 

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Had a little time to mess with it. The M40-T is definitely a contract amp, as the True Tone has a chassis the exactly same size, with mostly the same components. Unfortunately, it had been serviced, and there aren't many original to the amp. The cabinet is slightly larger, and the speaker dates to the 18th week of 1958, if i am reading the code corectly. The chassis also has a model number, "S10", and if you look in the cap'n's amp thread, you will see a very blurry chassis number under the inputs of another M40-T.

A lot of Western Auto's amps were rebranded Kay's, but this doesn't look like a Kay to me. It might possibly be from a company called Radionic, but IDK. Radionic is still around, but I doubt if they would know anything, as they make ballasts. Looking through Internet Archives for relevent materials, but that site is gloriously disorganized.

 

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And, coming soon, a split chassis SL-10 branded Stewart, from 1964-ish.