Mid-Century...Modern...Retro...The Past is NOW!
This vintage Sony F-96 dynamic cardoid microphone has a swell retro look with modern quality. A cool off-white enamel coating, brushed aluminum accents, and heavyweight construction make it both useful and stylish. It has surprisingly good sound for voice recording and could be used for lo-fi home music recording. It is equipped with a smaller [...]
The Fostex 250 four track recorder / mixer was used by countless musicians for home recording in the 1980s. Rock stars regularly dragged the Fostex 250 around with them on tour to write hits and record demo tracks on the road. This simple gray box has got a no-frills, heavy-duty construction and works great as [...]
A classic Western guitar from the Far East, this Vintage Global guitar was made in Japan sometime in the 1960s and imported for Sears and Montgomery Ward department stores. It’s got a swell pick guard with a honeysuckle blossom and a hummingbird and an ominously undecorated fretboard that has absolutely no dots or markings whatsoever. [...]
This totally awesome and increasingly scarce early 1990s Yamaha T50C combo tube amplifier features a 50 watt head designed by Mike Soldano. Here’s the history: my father was a floor supervisor at the Yamaha Music Mfg plant in Thomaston, GA, whose guitar skills and musical background were called upon to assist in sound tests on [...]
This set of vintage William Mitchell’s music pens for ruling & writing is incomplete, but still on its original backing card and in mostly unused condition. The three ruling nibs are unused as well as two of the others. Two have been used, one of which is still covered in ink and looks like it [...]
This vintage Heathkit code oscillator setup is completely self-contained and in perfect working condition. The totally homemade setup includes the Heath HD-1416 code oscillator, which is strapped down using a removable coil spring, and a screw-mounted morse code / telegraph key. Both items sit on a hand-fabricated blue acrylic base and everything is pre-wired…just add [...]
Vintage Otto Link Tone Edge Number 7 This slant signature vintage Otto Link number 7 star Tone Edge saxophone mouthpiece was found in a basement in the bottom of a dusty cardboard box! We discovered this vintage Otto Link mouthpiece at an estate sale run by the family of the late New Orleans musician and songwriter George [...]
This vintage Electro Harmonix 5x Junction Mixer is the original first model. It works the same way as the later models, but it has a much cooler retro style with the classic and unmistakable Electro Harmonix look. The unit was tested and works. It’s a highly useful device for some musicians, a head scratcher for others, [...]
DEARMOND M-65 ELECTRIC GUITARS LATE 1990s DEARMOND M-65 ELECTRIC GUITARS WERE MARKETED AS AN ENTRY-LEVEL MODEL, BUT IS SURPRISINGLY WELL-DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED. THE M-65 HAS A MAPLE BODY AND MAHOGANY NECK WITH A SHARP GLOSSY BLACK FINISH, AND IT’S A GREAT HIGH-QUALITY GUITAR DISGUISED AS A BEGINNER MODEL. THE “CHEAP” HUMBUCKER PICKUPS HAVE A NICE, [...]
THIS VINTAGE CASIO CASIOTONE MT-40 ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD HAS 22 DIFFERENT RETRO VOICES INCLUDING SYNTH FUZZ AND FUNNY FUZZ. ALSO INCLUDES SIX DIFFERENT BEATS AND ACCOMPANIMENTS, AS WELL AS A COUPLE OF NEAT DRUM FILL-INS. THE “ROCK” BEAT ACCOMPANIMENT IS BASED ON EDDIE COCHRAN’S “MAN, THAT’S SOMETHING ELSE” AND WAS ADOPTED BY EARLY JAMAICAN DANCEHALL REGGAE [...]
