
the MOONSHINE'39 Head
The NOCTURNE MOONSHINE'39™One of the greatest sounding tweed amplifiers I've ever played predatesnot only Leo's tweed amps from Fullerton but even solid body guitars andhumbuckers. It came from swingin cats in Kalamazoo back in the1930's not So Cal.Yep,The Gibby EH-185 is the holy grail of jumpin, jivin' late 30s-early 40s. Mr Charlie Christian made it, & the earlier EH-150 famous.The EH-185 had its start in 1939 as the type IV EH-150 was fading. I'm certainly no historian and correct me if I'm wrong but the actual schematicsare blurred somewhat between where one starts and the other ends.Maybe my grasp of the shaky history needs better research but the research I do best representing, comes from my own two original vintage EH-185's amplifiers.One has the Bass & Tone controls yet is stamped with the "EH-150" on the plate,this model is a 39'-40" era and the other is the later tone knob version. Which is better? BOTH!So, I took the 1939 version and changed the separate bass &