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In the hands of its new owner, Art
Duhamell, the amplifier and guitar brand name was changed to Magnatone, and the company name was Magna Electronics Company. Duhamell built Magnatones alongside record players, radios, and speakers. By 1950, Magna expanded from their Jefferson Boulevard, Los Angeles
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Magnatone amplifiers began in the late 1930s as the
Dickerson Musical Instrument Company founded by Delbert J. Dickerson in southern California. Beginning in the late 1930s, Magna Electronics was known as Dickerson Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company and produced amplifiers, Hawaiian and steel
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The brand was revived in early 2013 with a line of boutique amps, some of which are reproductions of previous
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California. The brand name was revived in the 2010s by Ted Kornblum.
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