Re: Electronics for Street performance

I went through a bunch of street amps: pignose, dwarf, mouse and a
dwarf hybreed. 25+ years ago My friend made one of those car battery
cart type amps to haul around put a radio shack pa on it as well.

Today If I had the cash I would buy a Taxi Limo amp - 50 watts run by
battery good sound, digital effects its a pritty nice amp and its
portable.

russ

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Reading the street performance thread reminded me of somthing I saw
last year at Virginia Beach, VA. There was some kind of music
festival going on and there were various sorts of street perfomers at
every other corner in the town. One group consisting of an accordion,
violin and a kid with a tamborine were playing on one of those
corners. What was interesting is that they had a freight dolly set up
with a deep charge boat type battery on the bottom, a small (600-700
watt?) inverter above it, a small amplifier (15-20 watt?) above that
and a drum machine (Alysis SR16) above that. A totally portable sound
system. What was so neat was that the battery was in a box that
swiveled when the dolly was on its back so that it was always
vertical. There were metal brackets welded to the dolly so that the
other equipment fit neatly in place and were held by nylon straps and
there was a nylon bag that fit over the frame with a pouch to hold
miscelaneous stuff such as a mike, music, lunch, etc and also served
as rain protection. I suppose something similar could also be put in
a wagon. I am wondering if anyone has seen something like this before
or uses such a rig.

John C.

A picture of it would be worth 1,000 words. I used to use a hand truck to
move my stuff around on the street. I had a Mouse amp with 2 holes drilled
in the bottom of the wood casing that fit over the terminals of a car
battery. I could pick the battery and the amp up by the amp handle after I
drilled holes in the lead batteruy terminals for *** metal screws and
fender washers. I had a folding chair, a travel bag of *** music, the
accordion in a hard case, and a music stand. The folding chair fit up agaist
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