Re: AAS attack prompts valve dilemma

alan.darlington@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
JNugent wrote:

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JNugent wrote:


Frank A Muller wrote:


JNugent wrote



Which war?


NO! Don't mention the war...

Speaking of which, does anyone remember many years ago the Russian pilot who
defected by flying his MiG to Japan? Now I don't know if this is an Urban
Myth or not, but I seem to recall that Japanese technicians crawled all over
the aeroplane and literally took it to pieces. Western electronics experts
were having a jolly good chuckle at the apparent primitive communications
and warfare systems that Russinas employed that still used out-moded valves.
That is, until it was pointed out that in the event of a nuclear blast there
is an enormous electromagnetic pulse that fries solid-state electronics.

Bringing this back on topic, surely that's a good enough reason to have a
valve amp. After the nuclear holocaust, we'll still be rockin' and rollin'
and glowing in the dark. :)

That story was well-reported at the time of the defection, and the state of
(some of) the plane's avionics was reported some time later, after it had
been inspected.

We'd never heard of Sovtek at the time...


Hi Lads,
yes EO I think you're right about the 6L6s. Time does strange things
to the memory. Yes JN JDs was just down from the Post Office and
Addisons the toy shop I think. I used to go to St Saviours off
Breckfield Rd North - how OT is that?? Going back to the Harmony amp
I've found it very frustrating trying to find any info on them. About
1968 I got bought a Harmony Stratotone Jupiter. There's some good
information on this at 'Harmony Guitar Database' I'm not sure how to
paste the link in so to save embarrassment a Google search will find
the site. I won't go into the Bird amp pup that I bought second hand
from Hessy's.

Hmmm... tell me more about the Harmony Stratotone.

Could it have been 1966 that you bought it? Was it from Hessy's? Was it
blonde and fitted with a Grimshaw vibrato tailpiece?


Hi JN,

second go due to a google crash. No. I bought it after a few beers in
Harrogate in November 1968. I was on a month-long course and spent
some of my lodging money on it. I paid £17 10s. - I don't know
whether it was a fair price? I sold it on to a mate about 10 years ago
for a song really. A few years ago I saw one in a book and it seemed
to be valued a lot more. It was identical to the H49 model as shown on
the Harmony database site. It had a white pick-up selector, the back
was more a yellow sunburst than orange. During the 80's I took it into
Rushworths in Whitechapel for some fretwork. The guy in there seemed
quite interested. He said it was hand-painted and most likely an
original made in Chicago. It didn't have a tremelo fitted. On the
other note, if we are still playing after the bomb drops I presume that
we won't any distortion pedals - we'll all be distorted.

OK.

So it can't be The One That Got Away in October 1966. Up for £35 s/h in Hessy's, the later, blonde model with two DeArmonds and the Grimshaw trem tailpiece (which must have been a Boosey and Hawkes retro-fit).

I wanted to try it (I was ready to buy my first real USA electric guitar), but someone beat me to it while I was waiting to be served.
.

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