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Post by pothos on Apr 9, 2018 15:18:59 GMT
I can only imagine how hard it is to make a homemade guitar.
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Post by Amadeus on Apr 9, 2018 16:12:28 GMT
1968 Galanti Grand Prix from Italy (that's a foreign country). When I took guitar lessons as a kid I never has an electric guitar so I would spend hours staring at the pictures of the electric guitar in my text book and long to be cool like the guy playing it in the picture. Just recently I actually found a picture of the real instrument and found out what it was. A childhood dream just a bit closer to reality.
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Post by henryj on Apr 9, 2018 18:22:35 GMT
Hey, Amadeus, in the electric guitar illustration, they did correctly label the "vibrato arm." At least they did not call it a "tremolo," as Leo Fender incorrectly called it.
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Post by henryj on Apr 9, 2018 21:10:39 GMT
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 9, 2018 22:09:06 GMT
Pothos, when at school we had to make something in Woodwork class, and I wanted to make a guitar. The teachers declined, fearing I would become a Rock star, so I opted to make a rather strange instrument, a bit like a Zither. After several months, the instrument still resembled a tree more than any man-made object; such was my skill with tools. Eventually I bought a Rosetti guitar.
By the way, the Vox Guitar/Organ I showed earlier...
was a design given to the Beatles. I'm sure they had fun with it!
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Post by henryj on Apr 10, 2018 11:26:16 GMT
So, what Beatle books are there that might document the Beatles' use of guitars with on-board electronics, given to them by guitar companies? And which albums these instruments might appear on? I'm thinking they did not use too many of them. Then there is the Coral Electric Sitar, which was not really a sitar, but a guitar with sympathetic strings that vibrated along with the plucked note to make it sound kinda-sorta like a real sitar. www.vintageguitar.com/23062/coral-electric-sitar/
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 10, 2018 15:38:44 GMT
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 11, 2018 9:35:58 GMT
Hamer 12 string bass Another couple with lots of switches... Galanti Grand Prix Hofner Galaxie
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Post by ROCKY on Apr 11, 2018 13:24:50 GMT
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 11, 2018 16:33:00 GMT
Brilliant, Rocky.
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 12, 2018 9:42:32 GMT
The Hopf Saturn. Interesting because instead of a standard jack plug it has a DIN socket...
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Post by henryj on Apr 12, 2018 11:23:35 GMT
Here is a Hopf Saturn, 1963 model. It has the standard quarter-inch jack. But the toggle switch is in a really bad place. At least for guitarists who get carried away and start flailing at the chords. reverb.com/item/6966730-hopf-saturn-63-1964
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Post by henryj on Apr 12, 2018 15:35:26 GMT
Didn't know until this morning at German electric guitars typically had a DIN socket instead of a 1/4" jack. (Deutsche Industrial Norms)
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Post by ROCKY on Apr 13, 2018 3:37:27 GMT
The first performer I can remember playing a weird guitar was Bo Diddley. Way back in the late 50's.
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 13, 2018 9:40:08 GMT
National Westwood, shape based on the outline of United States The Bartolini, another one with lots of switches
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 16, 2018 17:16:56 GMT
Gittler Fishbone guitar
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 17, 2018 9:47:53 GMT
Sonehenge mod2
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Post by pothos on Apr 17, 2018 10:10:55 GMT
Are most of these custom or where they actually commercially available.
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 17, 2018 10:45:44 GMT
Many were commercially available. Several of the above were European designs, to cater for the demand for instruments.
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Post by brewmaster on Apr 18, 2018 9:20:22 GMT
Westone rail
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