by JimN » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:16 am
Yes.
They were around, in the sixties.
In the second half of that decade, s/h echo (not "eko") units were totally out of fashion and a relative a drug on the market.
For between £20 and £65, you could get your pick of anything from a Watkins to a Binson, taking in Meazzi, Klempt, Selmer and Swissecho along the way.
JN
PS: I know Dave Jeffreys; he has been a visitor to my house. He managed to get some of that legendary Spanish warehouse-full of classic equipment which had been sealed since the mid-sixties. That echo unit (he specialises in echo units) looks like part of the haul.