The Selmer name is rather more familiar as a French manufacturer of school band wind instruments than as an English manufacturer of rock amps. However, dig around on the Internet, and you'll find old photos of Zep, Bo Diddley, pre-fame AND post-fame Beatles, Procol Harum, The Shadows, Gerry and The Pacemakers, all plugged into, or at least sitting next to, Selmer amps (By the way, Gretsch Tennesean + Selmer amp= "House of the Rising Sun", according to the cat who played the riff, Animal Hilton Valentine). It may be a case of history being written by the survivors, but The Story of British Amps is not solely the province of Vox and Marshall. From Selmer's demure Little Giant and two-tone Truvoice, to the mouth-watering, croc-skin covered, blinking-tremolo-eye-havin' Zodiac Twin 50, there is a wide array of COOL British Selmers changing hands among the tone cognoscenti.



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