What's your oldest piece of gear?

[xonlocust]

vintage digidesign mbox w/ "classic" converters - circa early 2000's.

[pscottm]

altec m11 'coke bottle' mic from '48. great sounding mic. to round out an 'old' signal chain, can run the m11 into a collins preamp from the 50's into a collins limiter from the 50's into an ampex 354 1/4" machine from the 50's, which adds up to 10 tubes and 8 transformers in one swoop.

[blunderfonics]

1955/6 Berlant Concertone Preamp

[I'm Painting Again]

1940's carbon mic
1950's Altec tube mic amps
1950's VOM mono tube RTR
1965 Fender mustang
1967 Ampex deck

[Spiderhead69]

The oldest piece of gear I have is my brain.

Other than that it would be my guitars.
1964 Mustang
1975 Mustang
1977 Ibanez Artist

and a few effect pedals from the late 70's, MXR phase 90, a Ross compressor, and a cry baby wah pedal, all bought around 1978 or 1979.

[AnalogElectric]

I don't know specific years but I know at least 1930's to 1950's on these mics:

RCA 44BX
RCA BK5b
(2) RCA 74b
(2) Neumann/Gefell CMV563
Telefunken Ela M 032/2

-- Adam Lazlo

[maxadocious]

1971 A. Dotras Cordoba Classical guitar
1972 Aria Classical guitar

Man, these Classical guitars sound awesome, I just wish they still had the strings from the 70's. When I first found them, they sounded super dark and mysterious, and the strings were actually darker in color.

1970s Casiotone 701 Keyboard

This thing is the shit. 8 note polyphony, faux wood paneling, great organ sound, 2 forms of vibrato.

[Scodiddly]

Oldest gear is probably an old Shure 51S mic, though I pretty much never use it.

Oldest piece of gear in regular use would be the 1969 P-bass, which I got used in high school. Back in 1982 a '69 was used. You had to have 1966 or older to be vintage.

[rolandk]

Oldest pieces of gear:

'62 Fender Princeton amp
'77 Martin D18 acoustic

Gear I've owned the longest:

'80 Les Paul Standard, bought in '81 when I was 16 years old.

[wardshorsehead]

oldest piece of gear i have in regular use would be my jh buckbee banjo, made in the late 1800's.

oldest studio gear might be a pair of rft pm750 mics, a couple of auditronic channels, and a couple of neve 33421 channels that i think are all late '70s and early '80s.

i have a fair amount of early '80s synths and drum machines.

so, only my banjo is interestingly old.

[douglas baldwin]

I was recently reunited with my Slingerland Radio King bass drum, which probably dates to the 1940's. I WISH... I WISH.... I WISH I had the snare that went with it.

Everything else I own is a trail of nuts, bolts, solder, tubes, frets, and wood from the early 1970's on.

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[mrc]

1959 00-18
61 SG
Vibrolux reverb
Fender 2 speed OIL can delay that uses the reverb tank and circuit
73 Les Paul Signature
72 or 3 Fender Mustang bass "Musicmaster"
Ampex Tube 2 track RtoR

[Knights Who Say Neve]

Cello, 1920s
Ray Massie Tube amp, 60s (?)
Shure rackmount turntable preamp 60s (?)
Silverface Vibro Champ 70s
ESQ-1 keyboard, 1986
Ibanez rackmount digital delays 80s

...and the second guitar I ever bought, a Yamaha SA-15 which dates from the late 60's and I've owned and loved since I rescued it from a jewelry pawnshop in 1988.

[;ivlunsdystf]

A Maccaferri plastic guitar, from approximately 1953:

http://www.vintageguitar.com/brands/details.asp?ID=59

It's been sitting in storage since 1992; since we put it in storage the tailpiece broke such that it now hangs slack from the strings. I will do some kind of mend and get it back into service one of these days.

My sister has a violin which was made in 1780-something. 1781 I think.

[mingus2112]

Well. . .

1957 UNKNOWN little tube amp that pretty much resembles an ampeg mercury (i only dated it by the code on the speaker) . . .it was handmade for an accordian!!

and then my 1967 Fender Bassman head . . .hmmm. . .drips with tone. . .