Re: Marshall Amps
If people are still puzzled as to what "harp" is being talked about, the blues harp is actually a harmonica/mouth-organ and Marine Band relates to a set of seven pitched in different keys. I think Marine Band was an early and very good manufacturer of these sets.
I think I have a soft-bound copy of a publication on the history of Marshall amplification, but I can't locate it at present. It may have been co-written by Ken Bran and someone else and had no mention of anyone called Dudley Craven. Jim Marshall was a drummer and owned a music-shop. I think Ken Bran was working full-time somewhere else before the event of copying the Fender Bassman 5F6-A came about. To suggest that Ken Bran was only there to populate the tag-boards is, I think, a bit of an insult. After all, when Jim Marshall got into a bad business deal later on and couldn't sell amps bearing his own name, he got Ken to make copies which were called "Narb". That's Bran backwards, get it? Certainly not "Nevarc".
Just my tuppence-worth, Colin.
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