So....whats "vintage" ???

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IS a 1990 Marshall amp? Vitnage? its almost 30 years old...

IS a 1970 PEavey "vintage" at almost 50 years old?

an 80's Epiphone......is that "vintage"?

or are ONLY -- name brand high end things allowed to be "vintage" --- like say a Les Paul Recording Guitar? or at 50 is it an ANTIQUE?

or is it just all OLD USED GEAR?????????????????????????????

Im curios -- I see things listed as "VINTAGE" all the time and wonder ........is that REALLY a VINTAGE guitar/amp etc.????

thoughts
 
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noun
noun: vintage; plural noun: vintages
  1. the year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced.
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    year
    • a wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.
    • literary
      wine.
    • the harvesting of grapes for winemaking.
    • the grapes or wine produced in a particular season.
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      grape harvest

      grape gathering

      grape crop

      harvest


      crop


      yield


      year's growth
    • the time that something of quality was produced.
      "rifles of various sizes and vintages"
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      period


      era


      epoch


      time


      origin


      genre


      style


      kind


      sort


      type


      cast


      stamp


      school


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adjective
adjective: vintage
  1. relating to or denoting wine of high quality.
    "vintage claret"
    • denoting something of high quality, especially something from the past or characteristic of the best period of a person's work.
 
Vintage references a period in time. I.e. "what vintage is that?"

Antique varies with kind of item.

According to the cork sniffers at TMF vintage is pre 1973 because that's when Marshall switched from ptp wiring to circuit board construction.

Cars generally have to be 25 years old to be classified as antique. I'm not sure where electronics stand. I think furniture has to be 100.
 
From Reverb...


"What is a vintage guitar?
While an antique is defined as an object over 100 years old, there's no strict chronological definition of what makes something vintage. Typically, though, guitars around 30 years old or older fall into that category, and even newer instruments will often be labeled as such by sellers. In the wine world, vintage can refer to anything of a certain quality, and there are some who take the same perspective with guitars. On Reverb, we usually consider anything made prior to 1980 as being vintage."
 
To me the word "vintage" itself is meaningless without context. I don't feel that just because some piece of gear (guitar, amp, pedal) is old it is automatically afforded "vintage" status, because to me the use of the word as it applies to electric guitars, which really have not been around all that long, implies that those which have achieved "vintage" status are also considered classics. To whit: I consider my 40-year old Les Paul to be vintage/classic. If I still had my first guitar, a POS Global SG copy, it would be about 45 years old but I would in no way consider it vintage/classic/worthy of existing.
 
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