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Barcus Berry amplifiers

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Topic: Barcus Berry amplifiers

Posted By: CloseToTheMoon
Subject: Barcus Berry amplifiers
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 11:55

A friend of my dad's gave me this amplifier a few days ago. It's an XL 20 model (as far as I can tell) and it has 2x10 speakers. Long story short...he got it for guitar but it was too loud for him. I just got around to playing it at a decent volume and it gets pretty damn loud. Not sure if the speakers were meant for bass at that volume for too long, but it's a clean sounding amp with reverb and a master volume.

Has anyone owned or played a Barcus Berry amp? I've been playing for 10-11 years and thought I'd heard of just about every maker, but never heard of this brand.

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Posted By: Synthesizedman
Date Posted: February 10 2012 at 20:11

Can't speak for the amp, but I've had a set of BB piano soundboard pickups since the '70s, so they have been around a while. See their website. Lot of product.

Cheers, John

Posted By: clarkpegasus4001
Date Posted: February 12 2012 at 05:43

Barcus Berry formed around 1963, and are more known for making pick-ups. You amp should be 120watts and those amps were produced between 1980 - 1985. I hope this helps.

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Tony C.

Posted By: bsabbath
Date Posted: April 15 2013 at 19:17

I recently acquired a Barcus-Berry XL-24 amp and am researching as well, Close totheMoon! So very little info available on our amps! Mine has 2 12" speakers and says 300 Watts on the back. I have found some old references on the internet about it (as expected) being used as a very loud concert violin amp. I saw one post that the XL-24 is actually 2 power amps of 100 Watts each. I have never played guitar through it, but it did come from a guitar player. I was wondering if you ever learned any more about yours, like value?