What's your oldest piece of gear?

[Cellotron]

My Framus cello is circa 1950 - so young for a cello - but older than me.
Both my Filtek MKIII eq's and my NTP 179-120 comps are from circa 1975.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[uniquebassplayer]

1958: Hammond M-1 Organ
1964: Fender Blackface Bassman Head (Sept of 64 according to the tube chart)
Late 60's: AKG D-12
Early 70's?: Korg 770 Monophonic Synth.- I've never seen another one of these, Have you?

I also have a pretty old Sennheiser 441 and a pretty old Beyer M-500 but I'm not sure how old they are.

[FlowersForHuman]

My house.

[parlormusic]

I have a Neumann KM53 & KM54 from the 1950's. Both were custom mics built by Neumann for a classical recording company in Berlin Germany. They sound wonderful!

[emrr]

In regular use?

Collins Radio Co. 26C-2 limiter from 1939-41.

RCA PF-5 passive hi-pass filter from late 1930's.


I have a few preamp pieces that need a bit of restoration from the 1929-32 period.

[drumsound]

My Shulz upright piano is in the 90-100 year range.

Leedy&Ludwig snare and BD I'm guessing from the '40s

Hammond M3 from the 50s

Leslie 147 not sure guessing 50-60s

K Zildjian 50s

Slingerland student model 3 ply froom 50-60s

'64 Slingerland drum-sey in White Marine Pearl

'65 Bassman

Wurlitzer 200a 70s I think

U87 70s

[Electricide]

hmmm. Cheap acoustic, 1996.

ahem.

[eeldip]

i have a rock i use to keep bass drums in place, its from "big lava bed" washington.

for a rock, its VERY new, estimated at "8,200 carbon-14 years B.P. (before present)".

but yea, basically i kick everyone's ass here. even with my relatively brand spanking new rock!

[MichaelJoly]

1933 S.S. Stewart archtop, 1949 Orpheum archtop

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Did I mentiion I LOVE OLD STUFF??

[RodC]

1937 Hammod BCV

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A 1948 RCA Powered mixer. A mono tube amp for line or mic level signals. Boasts a whopping 10% harmonic distortion. Neat thing is that during the winter, I can pull it out and power it up to work as a space heater because it has this great grill and like all tube equipment, the rectifier and output tubes heat to max. I usually just use it to power my Alpine 6" x 9" when I'm mixing. Between that and the mono speaker in the Studer, I'm covered.

Second oldest would be either the Gibson GA-8 Discoverer amp or the Gibson GA-17 Scout amp from 1961 or so.

Last on the list is the mega-cool Fairchild 692 dual preamp from the late 1960's.

Ooops, almost forgot the oldest piece is a 1920's Kalamazoo acoustic guitar...but it's not really gear...

[Jeff Roberts]

1937 Hammond B-C
1947 Gibson student amp
1950 Hammond C2
approx 1950 Leslie 31A
1950's Lesie 21H
1962 Ampeg B15N
2-1964 Fender Bassman Heads
1966 Ampeg Reverbrocket II
1965 Hammond A105
1968 Gibson 12 string
1969 SVT
1972 Gibson SG

Old Mics
RCA 44BX
RCA 77D
RCA 74B
Early 60's Reslo ribbon

[justinf]

We have a Gibson parlor guitar and a Gibson mandolin, both from around the turn of the century (1909-10 or so). They are beautiful.

The one I've had the longest is a DX7, bought new by my parents when I was in 4th grade, '84 or so. An incentive to check out "modern" music that they may have regretted later. . .

[Chris_Avakian]

probobly my ev 644. most of my stuff is pretty old, though. circa 76-81 maybe?