[Vintage-Audio] Re: Re Old Fender Amp

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Yo Bob,

Rock on Duane? Not I son, the son-in-law does the guitar picking in this 
family. However, my oldest grandson, Brandon who is now going on fifteen, is 
taking lessons. He explained some techniques to his instrument playing 
illeterate Grandfather several weeks ago. I knew just enough to know that he 
knew of what he spoke! Beyond that, I kept mouth shut, foot in sock and just 
smiled and grinned a lot!

Steve says that Fender was bought by somebody, maybe CBS? They made several 
new models which did not do well. They returned to the Concert series and 
business started to improve.

I think he paid $500 for the Fender amp, accessories and guitar.

Thanks for your input Robert, you are a man of many talents and much 
diversity. Remind me of myself, truthfully. Now I realize that sounds 
egotistical as heck, but it is not intended to be. i do have many gifts and 
talents, but playing an instrument or singing in key are not among them! The 
other one is artistic drawing. I had to use text labels with a small arrow 
aimed at the object. "girl >", "dog>" or "cloud>" etc.! Yet I could 
visualize an item in my mind's eye' and go build it or visualize in my 
mind's eye how a picture would look hung on different walls of a room 
without ever really doing it. Interesting how high creativity, abstract 
reasoning, high imaginative powers and color perception are not necessarily 
related to the artistic talent.

I was, and am, able to use those skills in the literary field or for 
detailed instructional scripts.

Do you play an instrument Robert? I have this vision of you in the late 
sixties with a beard, long hair, mirrored shades, one gold earring, funkey 
psychodelic painted t-shirt and radical bermuda shorts with some creative 
touches of your own, some thong sandals on your bare feet with bloodshot 
eyes and a smile  that indicated you had found the 'Twilight zone'! (LOLL!) 
About that time I was trying to think of something to prevent me from 
falling asleep in Eli Labner's Philosophy class! He was a living poster dude 
for how the Cartesian Circle really works! I had two college instructors who 
had the ability to take a potentially fascinating topic and turn it into 
something so dull that you could not part water with it!

Did you package arrive safe and sound Bob? this may be on the list, having 
trouble figuring out the screens on XP with the new OS and new screen 
reading package. I was only five or six years behind! hey, it worked great, 
so why mess with it!

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <w9ran at oneradio.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re: Re Old Fender Amp


> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>> I know it was made from 1983-1987, uses a pair of 6L6 and is more 
>> valuable because it is the blackface model, second edition. What i do not 
>> know is aprox. what it is worth. It is in excellent condition with almost 
>> no signs of wear and fully operational.
> Hi Duane,
>
> You're right about the vintage, serial numbers beginning with F4 followed 
> by 5 digits were made in 1984.  That makes it technically a "Concert II" 
> since the original Concert was discontinued in 1965.
>
> I'm no expert but I'd say the re-issued black face model from the early 
> 80's would be worth about $500, based on the postings from others at 
> http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data/Fender/Concert_2x12_Combo-1.html
>
> These are often referred to as "Rivera" amps, after designer Paul Rivera 
> brought back the 60's look and they're nice amps.   But the original 
> Fenders with black control panels and black Tolex were only made between 
> 1963 and 1967 and draw premium prices of 2-4 times that of the later 
> re-issues.
>
> Hope this helps, rock on Duane!
>
> 73 Bob W9RAN
>
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