Orange Receives Honor from Queen

Orange celebrates 40 with a Queen''s Honor and two new heads.

Orange founder Cliff Cooper receives the award from the Queen

London, England (January 12, 2008) -- Orange amps has received the highest honor bestowed on a company by Her Majesty the Queen, the Queen''s Award for Enterprise and International Trade -- a fitting acknowledgment of excellence as the company celebrates its 40th anniversary. The award recognizes companies that have been "able to demonstrate substantial growth in overseas earnings and commercial success, to levels that are outstanding for the goods or services concerned and for the size of the applicant''s operations."

It''s shaping up to be a busy year for Orange -- the company turned lots of heads at NAMM with the OR-50 and is currently fielding tons of requests for more info about their 40th Anniversary OR40 amps, a series of 40 plexi-fronted one-offs with unique circuits and tones. The buzz continues to grow, even though, or perhaps because, full details on how to score one of these babies have yet to be released. Here''s what we do know, so far:

40th Anniversary Custom Shop Model
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40th Anniversary Custom Shop

Limited to 40 pieces
Each amp has its own unique circuit
Point-to-point handwired
No wacky numbers -- each amp will be named after a girl
Plexi-Glass front panel with pic labels instead of words
First one (with black front panel) played by Jimmy Page at Zeppelin Reunion

OR50

Plexi-Glass front panel
Single channel
Patent-applied eight section output transformers
Updated version of HF Drive controle
Footswitchable Master Volume

For more information on Orange, visit orangeamps.com

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Orange celebrates 40 with a Queen''s Honor and two new heads.

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A blind horse wouldn’t be impressed, but this beautiful, double-horned instrument with one-of-a-kind engravings helped make luthier Tony Zemaitis famous.

Oh no—it finally happened! Now the big question: How long before my verve for guitar recovers from Covid?