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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Acoustic Amps | | Date: | , April 1, 2006 04:34:23 (+0100) | | From: | tower.op <tower.op @.......net>
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This is only incidental, but I remember seeing the Grand Ole Opry a couple of
times at the Ryman Auditorium in the 1950's. All the electric guitar players, as
they came on stage, plugged their guitars into a common jack box, about the size
of a deep cigar box, near the floor and the center of the stage. When they were
finished, they unplugged and took their cords with them.
Each jack may have been individually mixed, but nobody used their own amp.
There was a large Jensen bass reflex speaker hanging 15 or more feet above the
stage, angled toward the floor, probably as a monitor, with a mike hung a foot or
so in front of it. I always assumed that the overhead speaker was miked to the
WSM broadcast and to the auditorium PA.
This was before the days of amp special effects. Times have changed.
And, BTW, I think Hank Snow may have been the first one there to have a mike for
his flattop guitar. A tech came out and attached the mike to a midpoint on the
stand he was going to use, and then came out and removed it again when Hank's set
was finished.
Steve Bartlett
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