Valco

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Valco
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ProductsElectric and acoustic guitars, amplifiers
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Valco was a US manufacturer of guitar amplifiers[2] from the 1940s through 1968.

Apart from its original products, Valco also commercialised electric and acoustic guitars and basses through its subsidiary companies.

History

1940s Valco amplifier, made for McKinney School of Music

Valco was formed in 1940 by three business partners and former owners of the National Dobro Company; Victor Smith, Al Frost, and Louis Dopyera. The company name was a combination of the three partner's first initials (V.A.L.) plus the common abbreviation for company (Co.)

Valco manufactured and sold electric (since the 1950s),[3] resonator,[3] lap steel[3] and classical[4] guitars and vacuum tube amplifiers under a variety of brand names including Supro, Airline, National and Oahu.[1] They also made amplifiers under contract for several other companies such as Gretsch, Harmony, and Kay.

Valco merged with Kay Musical Instrument Company in 1967; however financial difficulties[5] forced the merged company to fold the following year.[6]

Replicas and revivals

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1939 National New Yorker
1962 Airline Town and Country
c. 1960 Airline “Double Pickup Bass”
Supro Res-O-Glas resonator guitar

Since Valco's demise a number of manufacturers have issued copies or derivatives of Valco instrument and amplifier models. Eastwood Guitars produces a variety of reissue Airline guitars,[7] as well as at least one Supro model,[8] though all of the former semihollow Res-O-Glas models are now wood solidbodies.

Several of Valco's earlier amplifier models are recreated by Vintage47 Amps of Mesquite, Nevada, using octal preamp tubes, rather than the later miniature noval preamp tubes.[9]

In late 2013, Absara Audio of Port Jefferson Station, New York announced that it had purchased the rights to the Supro trademark from Bruce Zinky.[10] Zinky used the Supro name for a series of amps beginning in 2005 from his company, Zinky Electronics. Absara debuted a series of new Supro amps at the 2014 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.[11] The new Supro amps are cosmetically reminiscent of their progenitors from the 1960s.

Bibliography

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  1. ^ Oahu Publishing Company, founded and presided by Harry Stanley, was a musical instruments and accessories distributor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the company commercialised guitars (mainly from Supro), amplifiers and imported accordions as well.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b 1956 Oahu-Supro Catalog
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."3 Times Electric Guitar Makers Tried to Ditch Wood". reverb.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  3. ^ a b c 1964 Supro Catalog
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rare 1968 Supro Classical Acoustic Guitar with Case | Reverb". reverb.com. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tony Bacon, ed. (2000). Electric Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. San Diego: Thunder Bay. pp. 243, 287.[verification needed]
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of Henry Kuhrmeyer and the Kay Musical Instrument Company. Contains Engelhardt Information". Kay Bass Information and Registration (KayBass.com). Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Airline Guitars". (eastwoodguitars.com). Eastwood Guitars. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Supro Dual Tone". (eastwoodguitars.com). Eastwood Guitars. Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vintage 47 Guitar & Harp Amps". (vintage47amps.com). Vintage 47. (See also: About us by David Barnes)
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Supro USA - The Legend Returns". (suprousa.com). Supro USA.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Legendary guitar amp brand Supro set for rebirth in 2014". press release (suprousa.com). Supro USA. December 4, 2013.

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