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Vintage Guitar Amps - 1940s Fender Guitar Amps Introduces Great Sound to the Industry
By Jimmie Sypolt
There are many makes and models of vintage guitar amps. The Fender company was the pioneer of introducing most of the vintage guitar amps that were produced in the 1940s. Fender was already in the music business for many years before they produced their first electric guitar amplifier and once they started building them, that's how they made their name in the electric guitar amp industry. From 1946 to 1948, their first electric vintage amp was the Vintage Woody with uncovered cabinets and handles made from maple, mahogany and walnut. You can imagine the weight that baby had.
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For Fender's 60th Anniversary of the Woody, the Pro Junior was built commemorating the 1946 era vintage fender amps. This amp looks that same as it did when it was first manufactured withe the exception that it is made from ash wood instead of the woods they were originally built with. It has a translucent honey-blonde finish that many guitarists have in their office matched with one of Fender's honey-blonde finish guitars like the Deluxe Nashville Telecaster®, Deluxe Nashville Power Telecaster, or Deluxe Power Stratocaster®
Fender made many other amps still in use today. They successfully introduced most of the vintage guitar amps into the industry. Some of the most memorable was the Vintage TV front amplifiers, Fender Wide Panel, Narrow Panel, Black Face, and Silver Face Fender Amplifiers.
So, Fender amplifiers built in the 1940s is how Fender made a name for themselves. In the 1950's, however, they continued improvements to their amplifiers with the introduction of the Fender Tweed Deluxe. These vintage guitar amps were built between 1948 and 1952 and this is the one that had the TV Front on it. It's appearance looked just like a TV with wide panels around the grill just like the TVs that were built in the 1950s.
When the Fender Tweed amp was built, the intention of Leo Fender, the owner of the company, was to make the amp have a clean sound even at higher volumes. Because the Tweed Deluxe didn't have that clean tone at high volumes, it is considered to be a beginner's amplifier. However, amp enthusiasts have reproduced this amplifier to make it sound great at higher volumes and there are many plans, kits, and instructions for building your own reproduction. The original Tweed Deluxe had a saturated tone at high volumes, and is the biggest reason it is one of the more famous vintage guitar amps ever produced.
One last note about vintage guitars, and some vintage amps. They are often priced far higher than new guitars and amps. Some people feel that, as technology improves, the quality of sound from new models should become better. But, there is a really good reason that the vintage amps of yesteryear are still being produced today. So, an analogy between antiques and vintage guitar amps can be made. Antiques, as well as vintage amps are often hand-crafted. Anything that is hand-crafted costs more money and is often of better quality than modern models. Also, thinking of antiques, sometimes older is better. Some older music is better than newer music and the sound of an old vintage amp cannot be beat with modern technology. A modern guitar amp can never repeat the sound of the old guitar amps that had no printed circuit boards and had components and tubes that were completely hand-wired point-to-point, thus creating that great sound vintage guitar amps are known for. For this reason, modern amps are often sold as vintage amps, because they are still built the same way: hand-wired, no printed circuit boards, and great sound at any volume.
Vintage Guitar Amps are the only amps in the music industry that give true clean at high volumes to your guitar playing. Find out more about Vintage Guitar Amps at BestVintageGuitarAmps.com
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