Hey Fiddle Jammers!

Happy New Year!  I hope you all made it through the Holidays unscathed and are jamming joyufully!

Things are still humming along at the Fiddle Jam Institute online school.  The School Store is still open for stand-alone courses.  Check them out!

Most of my efforts currently are going into developing my Outlaw Fiddle electric violin business, and I hope to be showing them at some violin conferences in the coming year.  I have changed the name of FJi’s YouTube channel to reflect this addition from Fiddle Jam Institute to now: Outlaw Fiddle Jam.

I am still doing the weekly live streaming sessions if you are interested, at 6:30pm Wednesdays EST.  Join in!  You can watch these as replays too.

For those interested in gear that is good for electric violin, I am currently selling my Pearse G1 amplifier that I used for 30+ years on 1000’s of gigs.  It has a 12″ speaker and also a 4″ speaker that makes electric violin hi-end sound sweet, but not screach-y.  I’m asking $550 for it.  I have twice that into it.  I have it listed on Reverb.com also, but will be happy to sell it to one of you privately (it would save me about $50 in fees).  I can offer free shipping in the continental US, and am willing to look into shipping elsewhere.  I include the ad text below for you to check out if you are interested.  Just hit me up via email if you’d like more info.

Stay in touch!

Fitz

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Reverb.com ad:

Pearse G1 Guitar Amp late 1980’s. Workhorse 100 watt amp used on 1000’s of gigs, never whimpered once. This was one of the first tube-less amps that sounded the closest to tubes at the time, endorsed by Steve Via, Alan Holdsworth, Les Paul and many others. I worked at the factory in Buffalo, NY as shipping manager and had the electronics guys do all the latest artist mods (EQ and Gain structure).

One knob not original (I stumbled coming home tired from a late gig and banged it into the door jamb). The potentiometer is fine. Tons of design features/options: Dual channel (clean and dirty, or both simultaneously, switchable via footswitch included). FX loops for each individual channel and a master effects loop (pre-amp to power amp). Nice musical sounding limiter. 3 different db input sensitivity settings. Separate inputs for each channel and a combined input. Internal spring reverb tank (lightly foamed to tone it down a bit for my personal preference).

Cabinet is a bit dinged up after 30+ years of steady gigging, but has no rattles. I have it as a closed back cab currently, the open back boards are long gone. I used to run two of these in stereo, one closed back and the other open back, in a Marshall-like stack. I used this amp for electric violin as well as guitar and had a MTX 4″ mid-range “cranker” car stereo speaker also in the cabinet for a little extra sweet high-end for the violin (included, but currently disconnected). Original Fane 12″ speak included also. Padded factory amp cover included. Removable casters.

Great amp. Sad to see it go, but it is time to get it to another good home, as I have moved on to other rigs for my electric violin. I will ship for FREE anywhere in the US.<<::>>