foa: Thanks for your answer.
It's a pity I can't reproduce the failure on purpose. The amp was built by ceriatone. Only my c-lator with the connected g-major was in the loop.
But....I opened the amp before this odd thing started to happen, to mount the "hrm on/off-switch" into the chassis.
It can't be the switch itself, because I used it for many weeks before (it was just connected to a wire hanging outside the amp for test puposes) and it worked well.
- It still does, but now it is screwed into the chassis.
Maybe I really caused a lose contact, I just don't know where I should start searching for it.
Andreas