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PLEXI 100W TREM with

CLOTH RETAINERS !!!

This is a fine Plexi 100w tremolo from around 1968. Trem amps seemed to be very popular in those days. Mr Townsend himself used only trems. But you seldom hear this effect in the records so why is it so. I think one again that, like Deluxe Reverb or regular, built-in effect amps had more gain because of the effect recovery stage tube.

But what I love the most with this amp is that it sill has its original power tubes cloth retainers. What a strange electronic part...I can trace their English origins because they remind me 'Alice in Wonderland' so much. You know the big mushroom she has to eat to change sizes. And if you look better, maybe you could see old Jim's grin fading away behind the lay-down transformer...

This is the back of my battered 100w plexi and surprise, it still has 2 of its cloth retainers. One of them is suffering because, during its American days ( I bought it in France but there is an American repairman sticker showing this amp has travelled a lot) it was retrofitted with the American equivalent of the EL34, the cheerful 6CA7, which looks like a 6L6, sounds like a 6L6 but is not a 6L6.