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Dumbleland for sale in my neck of the woods...

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http://patch.com/washington/seattle/sea ... ifier-sale

This is up at Emerald City Guitars in Seattle. I've been to the shop numerous times, never seen a dumble. I've seen a recovered 59 Bandmaster in there, but mine was in a little better shape.

At $159,000 - you gotta be a cartel drug lord, famous musician, or a wall street tycoon... that survived the life....

Cool looking amp. Anyone know any history beyond what's told in the article?
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I'm going to be in Seattle over the weekend. Might have to find the time to see this thing.
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brentm wrote:http://patch.com/washington/seattle/sea ... ifier-sale

This is up at Emerald City Guitars in Seattle. I've been to the shop numerous times, never seen a dumble. I've seen a recovered 59 Bandmaster in there, but mine was in a little better shape.

At $159,000 - you gotta be a cartel drug lord, famous musician, or a wall street tycoon... that survived the life....

Cool looking amp. Anyone know any history beyond what's told in the article?
I believe this amp was for sale a couple of years ago, if it's the same piece 56K was the asking price IIRC.

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I hope they have an armed guard there 24/7.....
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I wonder which guitar shop will get it next?
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ToneMerc wrote:
brentm wrote:http://patch.com/washington/seattle/sea ... ifier-sale

This is up at Emerald City Guitars in Seattle. I've been to the shop numerous times, never seen a dumble. I've seen a recovered 59 Bandmaster in there, but mine was in a little better shape.

At $159,000 - you gotta be a cartel drug lord, famous musician, or a wall street tycoon... that survived the life....

Cool looking amp. Anyone know any history beyond what's told in the article?
I believe this amp was for sale a couple of years ago, if it's the same piece 56K was the asking price IIRC.

TM
I guess that's not a bad return on investment, if they can find a buyer at or near that price.

It looks single channel with no loop. I see a preamp output on the back, no input. Pre steel string singer?
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I see it listed in Dumble's 1978 catalog. Although I didn't see the 150w on there.

I have a scrape of Rob Livsey's site on my local disk here... We need a community-managed content management system to put together the definitive list of dumble amplifiers, complete with all the gut shots. I know many of us here have bits and pieces of it, and they've been posted throughout various post on this board. We're only talking about roughly 300 amplifiers. It looks like Livsey's got about 58 of them documented at the time of my scrape.

I've been slowly doing something of the same for TR amplifiers on my site. It's in wordpress. Only because I have a collection of them on my local disk and no where to present them.

Putting together a collection of Dumbles with missing spots for the rest of the surviving amplifiers wouldn't be too difficult to start. I'd probably use Joomla or Drupal for the CMS. If I did this, I'd be willing to share the database and content backups for community redundancy, but it would need a big boost for the content from the users of this site... you guys have the most knowledge in your head that needs to be definitively documented.
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brentm wrote:Putting together a collection of Dumbles with missing spots for the rest of the surviving amplifiers wouldn't be too difficult to start...
Good idea. Another capture of R Livesey's site here: http://thesubjectmatter.com/dumblearchive.html
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brentm wrote:
I guess that's not a bad return on investment, if they can find a buyer at or near that price.
Dumble is a "brand" now so you have to forget it's just an amplifier, it's a commodity and in some ways maybe should be considered modern art.



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"150 WATTS Ave."???
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Mr. dB wrote:"150 WATTS Ave."???
We gonna rock down to, electric avenue..

It probably would have been better to say "average" rather than stop short three characters..
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Is this the amp: http://www.emeraldcityguitars.com/produ ... d-special/
$159,995.00

Year: 1978
Condition: Excellent
Serial Number: 8
Watts: 150 watts
1978 Dumble Dumbleland Special
1978 Dumble Dumbleland Special. This is the real deal folks! A rare beauty that we are very excited to have here in our shop at Emerald City Guitars! Serial #8 of 10 of this model, rumored to have been originally built for Merle Haggard. This beast of an amp boasts 150 watts of power from a quartet of 6550 tubes and delivers big, glassy, hi-fi cleans and a crunchy, dynamic breakup. Massive transformers contribute to the Dumbleland Special’s huge sound with an attack that hits you in the chest like a ton of bricks. This amp is extremely articulate and responsive with unmatched clarity at any volume level. The 3-band EQ, plus high and low filters along with “Bright”, “Deep”, “Rock”, and “Accent” boost switches give you nearly limitless control over tone. The Dumbleland Special is and incredible, high powered masterpiece with an unrivaled sound! Includes custom flight case.
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It seems John Mayer bought it

Does anyone have further info on the circuit?
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The golden can is a double filter cap ?

Let me guess:
V1 for the preamp
V2 recovery gain stage for the filter section (100k output impedance - could be a cathode gain stage directly coupled to a CF)
V3 PI
V4 (is longer than a 12AX7 - 12BH7 ?) CF PT Driver

what do you think ?

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Bombacaototal wrote:It seems John Mayer bought it

Does anyone have further info on the circuit?
Interesting that John Mayer scooped it up. I wonder how many are now in his possession.

This should get you started on the circuit. It looks like theres a couple extra filter controls on the 150w.

http://ampgarage.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... sc&start=0

Jelle built a small special, he could probably give you more detail on what you might find inside this one.
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