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Traynor YBA-2 Bass Mate

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Canadian amp maker Traynor gets a lot of respect in some circles for turning out solid, good-sounding tube amps that are built with quality...
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Horray For Hollywood

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Movies made in the 1950s and ’60s that included rock-and-roll music acts typically showed them performing in segments using their own equipment (Little Richard...

1978 Gibson RD Artist

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Throughout most of the 1970s, Les Pauls ruled the guitar roost. But toward the end of the decade, some players became interested in more-sophisticated electronics,...
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National Bel-Air

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The idea of Gibson providing guitar parts to another prominent guitar maker is laughable today, but in the 1940s and ’50s, relationships were cozier...
Boggs' Quad

Boggs’ Quad

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Noted in musical history as one of the players who pushed the steel guitar beyond Hawaiian music to more-complex chording and wild interchanges with...
National-Dobro 6107A

National-Dobro 6107A

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Preamp tubes: 56, 57 Output tubes: two 2A3 Rectifier: 5Z3 Controls: Volume Output: 6 watts RMS +/- Speaker: one 10" Lansing Model 112 Why doesn’t this ever happen to us?...
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Kustom’s The Bag

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When Steppenwolf’s John Kay took the stage, it was easy to believe he was performing a suitably ’60s ceremony celebrating the wine god Bacchus,...
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Homer Haynes’ ’59 D’Angelico Excel

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From 1932 to 1964, independent builder John D’Angelico produced some of the finest jazz guitars. After apprenticing and working in the violin trade, D’Angelico transitioned...
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Beyond the Parlor

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Ed. Note: In part two of his series on the guitar in 19-century America, Tim Brookes addresses the common belief that the guitar was strictly a ladies’...
Star Board: Rudy Jaramillo

Star Board: Rudy Jaramillo

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Rudy Jaramillo is quick to mention that his effects setup is very simple. "I go into my 1) Boss tuner, then to a 2)...
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