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Valco was a United States manufacturer of from the 1940s through 1968.
Apart from its original products, Valco also commercialised electric guitar and acoustic guitars and bass guitar through its subsidiary companies.
Valco manufactured and sold electric guitar (since the 1950s), resonator guitar, 1964 Supro Catalog lap steel and classical guitar guitars and vacuum tube guitar amplifier under a variety of brand names including Supro, Airline, National and Oahu. They also made amplifiers under contract for several other companies such as Gretsch, Harmony Company, and Kay.
Valco merged with Kay Musical Instrument Company in 1967; however financial difficulties
forced the merged company to fold the following year.
Several of Valco's earlier amplifier models are recreated by Vintage47 Amps of Mesquite, Nevada, using octal preamp tubes, rather than the later miniature noval preamp tubes.
In late 2013, Absara Audio of Port Jefferson Station, New York announced that it had purchased the rights to the Supro trademark from Bruce Zinky.
Replicas and revivals
Since Valco's demise a number of manufacturers have issued copies or derivatives of Valco instrument and amplifier models. Eastwood Guitars produces a variety of reissue Airline guitars,
(See also: [http://vintage47amps.com/About-us/ About us] by David Barnes)
Bibliography
Article about Valco's Supro brand
Article about Supro's resonator guitars
Article about National's map guitars
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