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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 🤩 IMG_6580.jpegThe Basques are the peoples who have most resisted invasion throughout European history, so perhaps the baseball bats have come in handy there too.😅
 

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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 🤩IMG_6580.jpegThe 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


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

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

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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)
6CD9CA3D-9893-4886-93D5-17ADD35E9FC0.jpeg

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.
 

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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.
 

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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 🤩IMG_6580.jpegThe 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. :D
It sure as hell wouldn't have been an efficient method of hunting Haggis. :p
 

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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.
 
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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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