SELMER - TRUVOICE AMPLIFIERS
.........FROM OUT OF THE MISTS OF TIME
The Kaisers with their Selmers-
Courtesy of Matt Armstrong
This section of the website
was put together as a joint collaboration between Tim Fletcher and myself Steve
Russell. Tim is an enthusiast who, like me, believed that
the old Selmer guitar and bass amplifiers have never received the
recognition that they deserve. There is virtually no information
available anywhere on these old workhorses from the 60's. Totally
different story with Vox amps, of course. The WWW is full of sites
expounding the virtues of those admittedly fine amplifiers. Yet, during
the early 60's in the UK, both Vox and Selmer were running equally in
quality and quantity, supplying the up-and-coming bands of the day with
professional standard amplification. So, way back around the year 2000, Tim and myself decided to help
redress the balance.
The philosophy that we
adopted with the Selmer section, was that we simply put down our joint
knowledge on the subject. This relied on us both using our memories going back
nearly 40 years, because as previously stated, there appears to be no
other source of accurate information on the subject. We would be the first to
admit therefore that there may well be errors on this website. However, we have
done our best, and over the years during which the website has been running,
the website content has been updated and expanded on the basis of
information sent to us by the many visitors to the site.
Many Selmer fans used to bemoan the lack of
information on Selmer amps, and this was our humble attempt to kick-start the
process of putting together a source of knowledge. Initially, parts of it were
an educated guess, and some even hearsay, but hopefully over time we managed to
get pretty close to the truth.
Let's get down to specifics. Below are lised the main periods of the
Selmer Amplifier evolution. Click on the one that appeals most, and
have a look at the details and pictures of the amps appropriate to that
period.
VALVES
!! - A summary of most Selmer Amp models and their
variations. The page attempts to show the development of the various
models by a consideration of the valves (tubes) fitted through the
range.
Eric Stollsteimer and his Selmer Thunderbird Twin 30 - The
Gold Dollar Club, Detroit, 1999. (Eric is playing a 1967 Vox Starstream XII,
and yes, that is a Vox Line-Source speaker just to the right!)
Amps
