A fine example of The Shadow Echo valve Copicat.

This one belongs to Pete Haycock. Pete is particularly impressed by the valve preamp section of the unit and when recording, he often uses this alone without the echo. It uses three playback heads and a simple but effective permanent magnet erase system.

With thanks to Pete for permission to use the picture.

PHOTO 1

This is an early Mk2. 1959/60 The little ticks under the push switches were meant to denote the head which was selected. The box is not original. I had just bought a new Ford Consul Estate and went to East Ham to collect a can of special blue metallic cellulose which I fancied for the deck. On the way back, Sniff,Sniff!! Funny smell. Stopped, investigated. Lid off the cellulose all over the back of my new car. Just saved enough to do the MkII run.

PHOTO 2

Bit of mystery to me. I don't remember this colour or design. Must be MkIIish, IIIish.

PHOTO 3

Late MkII. cica 1961. Made at Offley Rd and not the Balham shop. Printing reflects changes made by new advertising agent Unsworth Murray who later designed the WEM symbol

PHOTO 4

Another late MkII, probably 1961

PHOTOS 5, 6 and 7

All within a year of each other. This is the model which stormed Europe by the thousand. Guild Guitars staggered me at the 1961 Frankfurt Music Fair by handing me an order for 1000. Black or Blue has no significance. The colours used to change with my brain storms and fluctuations. All were designed by Bill Purkiss and were generally credited with being the main ingredient of the now legendary "Sound of the Sixties". The heads on photo 4 & 5 are original Marriotts .

Thanks to Keith Smart for permission to use the above pictures and text.

Above - two views of a Copicat Valve Reissue
	A digital version of the old Copicat.
Mk1 Copicat - inside the box	This one ended up in Oz!