Tonight is the last night the Moon and Sixpence pub is open with Adam at the helm. A sad day for music lovers and hell raisers of Glossop. What will happen to the place now I am not certain. I have had a lot of great nights in there on the beer and wine and dancing most of which I cant remember that well. As both of us run moon themed businesses I feel a special affinity.
This little analog synth had unusual mains socket at the back which was broken. I had to put a fixed mains cable on it to get it working. I think it was made in the late 1960’s.
You can see the individual oscillator boards with their adjustable coils in the sqaure aluminium cans. It is polyphonic.
1970’s VOX AC30 in with a loud mains buzz. Main fault was the HT smoothing capacitor (the old one is the blue thing on the top). It also needed a new quad of EL84 tubes and a small repair to one of the speaker cones. All done, it was very hum free and hiss free. It is hard to fix the date for this one. It had 1976 on the POT’s date code. It looks like a Rose Morris era AC30 Top Boost amp without the voltage selector on the front panel and with PCB strips wired to valve sockets, not tag boards. The PCB’s are the superior glass fibre bluish ones. This is one of the better models to get. The 1970 to 1973 Birch-Stolec era models are to be avoided because the resin bonded paper PCB with directly mounted tube sockets degrades with the heat and the copper tracks come loose. Tag board wired models are easiest for techs like me to work on.
