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mid-1940's
Epiphone "Century"
16-3/8" Archtop
Electric with
late-40's Electar
"Zephyr Orchestral"
Amp
Guitar:
rare version with a crude, single bar magnet pickup
in the neck position where its sound is more
mellow & fat
in sound closest thing to the Gibson "Charlie
Christian" ES-150 that Epi made
one of best sounding Epi's ever made
tobacco sunburst finish
3-ply maple top, sides & back; flat back
2 piece maple neck with mahogany strip
rosewood fretboard with dot inlay
brass Epiphone name-plaque on peghead
creme single-ply binding on top & back
creme bakelite "stove" knobs with rectangular tone
& gain plates
adjustable rosewood bridge
nickel trapeze tailpiece with open nickel tuners
introduced 1939; discontinued 1964
Amp:
tube amp with a commanding sound, notorious
for runnng hot
elegant maple veneer cabinet
bandstand music-holder shape
front angled back "so that the tone is thrown up
into the air and forward and eliminates dead spots
in the speaker trajectory noted in the older type
of amplifier cases"
"a new amplifier circuit that is an achievement
in musical instrument amplification as outstanding
as the innovation of frequency modulation in
broadcasting"
inlaid horizontal walnut strip below the speaker
one 12" speaker
introduced 1939; discontinued 1954
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