Standel Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Vintage Standel advertisements; 4 adverts covering a period of 4 years, from 1968 to 1972. Click the images to have a closer look.

The Standel Sound
Standel Amplifiers - 1968

Standel presents... solid state music systems
Standel Amplifiers - 1968

The Custom Slimline Solid State Amplifier
Standel Amplifiers - 1969

More Power to Ya!
Standel Amplifiers - 1972

1967 Epiphone Ad featuring a psychedelic fish playing an Epiphone Riviera

1967 Fender Ad - Full Colour Sound

1973 Fender Stratocaster add - The Worlds Favourite Flying Machine

• electric guitar adverts
• acoustic guitar adverts
• bass adverts
• amplifier adverts
• effects pedal adverts

Guitar makers have advertised in music magazines such as Down Beat, Guitar Player and very many more. Some manufacturers advertised widely (Guild, Gibson, Fender) but many more didn't and adverts are few and far between. Here are some of my favourite ads out of the ones i've seen. You can browse through all the images from the category links above, or by manufacturer from the links below.

AMPS
Ampeg, Leslie, Marshall, Orange, Peavey, Sunn
GUITARS
Dan Armstrong, Epiphone, Fender, G&L, Gibson, Goya, Gretsch, Guild, Hagstrom, Harmony, Hayman, Hofner, Ibanez, Kimbara, Martin, Music Man, Rickenbacker, Vox, Yamaha
DISTRIBUTORS
Fletcher, Coppock and Newman, Rose-Morris, Rosetti, Selmer