So my wife has been wanting a piano for some time and really, I would like to have one to tinker with occasionally myself. I found one on Craigslist that the lady did not know the brand of what year it was made. It looked good in the pictures, so I offered to trade her a solid state guitar amp that I never used for it and she accepted (I think she just wanted the piano out of the way). Went to look at it and did not see a name or any markings on it but it played good minus a couple of keys and appeared to be in good shape. Loaded it up, took it home and then took the cover off of it. Found the serial number and found out that it was a 1890 Kimball piano... It had been modified during WWII like a lot of the old pianos to have the mirrored front. Found out that musical shops had to do this to the old pianos since there were none being produced during this era and in order to have product to sell, this was the one option that they had to have pianos to sell....
Well, my wife was feeling bad because I gave up my amp to get her a piano, and she called me today from a garage sale and said that she had found a little Fender amp that she was going to get me for $25. I said that that was okay and she told me it was going to be one of my Christmas presents... I saw her pull up and watched her try to lug this bulky amp that had a black amp cover over it and ran outside to help her out. I grabbed it from her and it felt like it weighed about a hundred pounds! Got it inside and took the cover off and couldn't believe what she had purchased for $25. at a garage sale!!!
A 1969 Fender Super Reverb Silverface amp with the original foot pedal and cover!
This is my first tube amp, so will have to do some learning about it...
