Santa is back!!

Time to fool around with word´s once again, in hope to tell the latest story regarding My so called musiclife. Not that easy you might understand as I´m not born with english as my first language. Some has natuarly seen and try to understand my bad gramma.

Anyway it´s early morning 4 a clock and hopefully some have a good night sleep at this hour. Here I arrived home after Wendsday rehearsel with " The Görans Garage Band". Natuarly our sweet black fluffy cat "Mr Piiiiiiiip" hurried out after beeing kept inside for the hole evening. When I planned to go to bed He was still out and it didnt matter that i called for him. I even went out on the mainroad to look for him, he might have been a victum on the road. Well when he arrived to the house the time was 20 minutes to 4!!! 

This day started with some work on one of me cars, then a few minutes after one Santas little helper arrived with Christmaspresents.

There was a natural break in the carwork, instead I unpacked the delivered packages! And there it was just as Ive seen it on a ebay picture. A Burns Orbital De Luxe speaker cabinet and inside a 12" Orbital-FANE speaker. It did look fantastic and I was told earlier by SANTA - me freind Bill L in UK that it was working.

next step to unpack the smaller package. A few minutes later in my hands I held for the first time a genuine Burns Orbital Stage One, pa amplifier.! Today its impossible for me to tell, but as far as I know the Swedish Burns importer during the 60´s didnt import any of those amp´s. So maybe this 50 year old amplifier is the first that is in Sweden.

Natuarly I couldnt resist testing it but first I had to remove the original AC power cord and install a new one. (I dont trust those old cables). A cleanup inside and some electronic spray in  the potentiometers (variable resistors) and it was ready for action. Some black spray used on the amp cabinet made it look much better.

 

A guitar was plugged in and some kind of weird sound was heard. Well it was notes for sure but the sound was very much Heavy Metal with an extreme Marshall type of distorted sound. What was wrong. Tried every possibility but the sound coming from the speaker was bad, really bad!

So i gave up and was about to go back to my cars. But before i did that a microphone was connected to the amp. Suddenly the sound was GREAT. At this point I realised that the input impedance was made for vocal microphones and not high output guitar pickups.

Burns Amp collection. Left to Right

Burns Orbit Three, Burns Orbit Three Double 12, Burns Orbital Stage One, Burns-Baldwin Double BB 100, Burns Clone Speaker, Burns Orbit Two, and finally Burns Orbital De Luxe speaker.