"Hi George - any interest in selling your Valco? I'm currently playing a very similar one that I borrowed from a friend. I'm on the hunt for my own. Let me know one way or another. Feel free to send me a private…"
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George Vazquez-Wolin
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George Vazquez-Wolin replied to Chris Simon's discussion Supro 6498VR"Hi Chris check out, valcopages.com they have a bunch of Valco schematics on pdf format.
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Bob Welsh commented on George Vazquez-Wolin's photo
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"My band was called Reality In Exile. we played at the Amazon every month pretty much for three years, even played there for new years eve a couple times..... Sonna was pretty easy to work with. I understands its closed now?"
George Vazquez-Wolin commented on George Vazquez-Wolin's photoDSC00909
"Thats funny I played the amazon lounge a bunch of times with my old band Nite Shift. As far as the 1600 supreme goes the schematic for that amp shows 6v6 power tubes instead of the 6973's that I have in mine."
Bob Welsh commented on George Vazquez-Wolin's photoDSC00909
"Exactly what I replaced my speaker with as well! I had someone else ID the amp as a 1600 Supreme, which maybe what the non-house brand name of the amp was. I see you live in St Louis, I lived there for 7 years and played lead guitar in a couple…"
George Vazquez-Wolin commented on George Vazquez-Wolin's photoDSC00909
" Hi Bob, What I have is a Dwight made by Valco. The front logo is missing but you can barely make it out on the top left side of the grill. Dwight was the house brand for Sonnys Music store in East St. Louis. This amp is similar…"
Bob Welsh commented on George Vazquez-Wolin's photoDSC00909
"George, I've been told my amp - which is identical to the one you picture here - is a "Chicagoan" model. What more can you tell me about them, since you have one? Mine and yours look to be in nearly identical shape but mine is missing…"
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- Do you own a Valco amp? If so, what model(s)?
- Dwight T29255
- What is your favorite guitar?
- Telecaster
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- At 3:33pm on April 29, 2012,
Michael Gliedman said… Hi George - any interest in selling your Valco? I'm currently playing a very similar one that I borrowed from a friend. I'm on the hunt for my own. Let me know one way or another. Feel free to send me a private message. Thanks! Michael
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History of Valco
The Valco company has its roots in the National String Instrument Corporation, which was founded in 1927. The company is famous as the first manufacturer of resonator guitars, which were hugely popular in blues and (a bit later) bluegrass music. National merged with the Dobro company, another maker of resonator guitars, around 1932 to form the National Dobro Corporation. The company began producing electric instruments in the 1930s that included electric guitars, lap steels, mandolins and amplifiers. These pre-war electric instruments are fairly rare today, though the lap steels pop up with some regularity. The archtop bodies for the guitars were sourced from Regal and then from Kay, but the electronics were developed and manufactured by National-Dobro. The Supro brand name was introduced in the mid-‘30s for cheaper electric instruments. Read More >
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