General Information

Serial #

203

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Wood body; fabric covering; metal handle and interior components; glass tubes; synthetic handle grip, knobs

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

40.2 cm

Width

21.0 cm

Height

37.8 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Communications

Category

Music

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Galt

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Galt

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Little is known about the provenance of this amplifier. The amp was given to Mr. Pilote in the early 1990s by a friend who had purchased it at a garage sale in Milton a couple of years earlier. This acquisition may well represent the first manufacturer of electric guitars and amplifiers in Canada. Information on the history of electric guitar manufacturing in Canada is almost non-existent. The Galt company may have been making lap steels and amps as early as the mid-1950s. In 1962 Glenn McDougall began building small numbers of electric guitars (though not lap steels) in Saskatoon, but guitar and amplifier making in general did not become well established in Canada until the late 1960s and early 1970s. Among the electric guitar manufacturers still active today is Godin Guitars, Montreal, a high volume manufacturer of instruments for the mass market. In the field of amplifiers, both Garnet (Winnipeg) and Traynor (Toronto) began in the late1960s, with Traynor still in business today. (Taken from the Acquisition Proposal)

Function

An instrument used to amplify the sound from an electric instrument.

Technical

At least superficially (further research required), the Mason amplifier circuit resembles a Fender Champ (1948), a three-tube design that features two input jacks, on potentiometer for volume control, a preamplifier tube, an output tube and a rectifier tube. (Taken from the Acquisition Proposal)

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On the proper front: "THE/ MASON" inside of an inverted triangle. On the control panel on the proper back: "THE MASON"/ "GALT MUSICAL/ INSTRUMENTS LIMITED/ GALT ONTARIO"/ Around two inputs: "INSTRUMENTS/ 110-120 VOLT 25 OR 60 CYCLE/ 0.42 AMPS"/ Around a selector knob: "SWITCH/ LOW HIGH/ OFF"/ Around a fuse: "FUSE/ 2 AMPS"/ "CSA" (logo)/ "MODEL 6/ SER NO. 203"/

Missing

Appears complete

Finish

Light brown cloth with dark brown marbling over a wooden frame.

Decoration

N/A