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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. 





 

THE SELMER AMPLIFIER INDEX




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.



Also have a look at:




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!)




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Visit the WATKINS/WEM AMPLIFIERS WEBSITE






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Visit the BIRD AMPLIFIERS WEBSITE






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Visit the FENTON-WEILL AMPLIFIERS WEBSITE





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Visit the GRAMPIAN, DALLAS, SHAFTESBURY, & ELPICO AMPLIFIERS WEBSITE







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