FS: Major Bowes AHB microphone

[SEAWOLF97]

thanx for all the PMs, it is SOLD

This is the real deal from the 1930's . Don't think it has ever been used. Major Bowes was the most famous man on the radio for many years. THIS IS NOT A CHINESE COPY/REPRO. It is metal, no plastic at all. It sat on top of my JBL's for years, but now the OHM's dont have a solid top for displaying nicknaks.

$35 + shipping..its under a pound , so $4.05 PRIORITY to anywhere in CONUS. checked eBay and dont think they've ever had one of these.

[hjames]

This is a picture of the Astatic Bullet mic Emma uses when she blows blues harp.
Tried to send it va PM, but PMs won't load pix ...
(this is from ebay, but ours is just like it, on a chrome base)
I unscrewed it from the base and I made her an Astatic-to-1/4 phone jack cable for her guitar amp.
Just a bit of reverb and ... man!

[Fred Sanford]

Emma plays blues harp? You kids are cool!

Astatic A77 element in a modded case for blues harp here- not that I'm any good at it, it's for guests to the studio.

je

[SEAWOLF97]

prolly the first "American Idol" show.


Edward Bowes (14 June (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_14) 1874 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874)—14 June (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_14) 1946 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946)) was an American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_programming) personality of the 1930s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s) and 40s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s).
Widely known under the name Major Bowes, the San Francisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco)-born composer and arranger achieved celebrity as the creator and host of radio's best-known talent show Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Bowes_Amateur_Hour), which was heard over the CBS Radio Network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio_Network) from 1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934) until 1952 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952).
Bowes' name was a household word and his show consistently ranked among radio's top ten programs throughout its entire run. His catchphrase, "...around and around she goes and where she stops nobody knows", spoken in the familiar avuncular (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avuncular) tones for which he was so renowned, was widely known and repeated throughout the country.
Major Bowes died on his seventy-second birthday at his home in the New York suburb of Rumson, New Jersey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumson%2C_New_Jersey). The following week his talent coordinator Ted Mack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Mack) took over the hosting chores and continued, first as the interim, and later as permanent host until the program's cancellation twenty four years later, on September 27 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_27), 1970 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970). As a measure of the affection attached to Bowes' name, the show continued to be called Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour until the 1950-51 season, when it became simply Original Amateur Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Amateur_Hour) and in 1955 became Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Amateur_Hour).
Nineteen months after Bowes' death, on January 18 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18), 1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948), the program, with Ted Mack as host, debuted on television, where it was seen on all four major networks (including its first, Dumont (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network)) until 1970. The radio version, also with Mack, ran until 1952. It is reasonable to assume that had Bowes lived a bit longer, he would have become a major personality of 50s television (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television) and his grandfatherly-avuncular demeanor would have come across as affectionately familiar to the public that knew his radio persona so well.