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Bertram D
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- Framus Sg With Bizarre Tremolo
guitarz.blogspot.com While in Soviet-era East-Germany, guitar companies were developing new instruments for a new society, based on the lutherie tradition of Markneukirchen, with radically new designs and solid technology, capitalist West-Germany was...
- 1960s Hoyer Semi-hollow Telecaster
guitarz.blogspot.com I knew that Hoyer has been producing their own version of the Telecaster since the 1960s (as you can see here, it's never been a mere copy) up to nowadays, but so far I didn't know the semi-hollow version of it. And I...
- Custom 77 Roxy - A New Classic?
guitarz.blogspot.com I know that I probably spend much too much time ranting here about how unimaginative guitar making became in the last decades, so let's cut the crap and rejoice over creative luthiers and small companies that can...
- Jolana Rubin - 1970s Soviet-era Czechoslovakian Semi-hollowbody Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Soviet-era Czechoslovakian semi-hollowbody Jolana Rubin short-scale bass really does look quite glorious. I've no idea what it sounds like or how it plays, but I want it. I am reminded of the Orfeus Hebros bass from Bulgaria...
- Soviet-era Ussr Aelita-2 Guitar By Rostov
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another example of a gloriously cheesy soviet-era (probably 1980s) Russian guitar, the Aelita-2 by "Rostov on Don Musical Instruments Factory" (so it says in the eBay listing). I can't imagine what all the pots and...
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plastic semi-hollow body Lunacharki Maria Leader
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When I first saw this semi-hollow Lunacharki Maria Leader (Луначарки Мария Лидер), I was stricken by how much its body looks like plastic - and in a pretty good shape for a 40-year old instrument... Well, it is made of plastic, in a typical modernist attempt in Soviet guitar making to shatter any tradition and create all new instruments like the famous and excellent Tonika (and contrarily to East-German or Czechoslovakian electric guitars that relaid on centuries old luthiery craft).
When it comes to East-Europen guitars, cheesyguitars.com is an inevitable starting point, but they make a terrible reputation for this guitar as being the ultimate crap - and I found other sources that are a little bit more positive about it - though my Russian is quite rusted (I gave up studying Russian at the fall of Soviet Union when I realised that there was no future in becoming a KGB spy).
There was a 12-string version of this model, and also a bass one, that have been showed on Guitarz a couple of years ago...
Bertram D
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - 10 years and counting!
- Framus Sg With Bizarre Tremolo
guitarz.blogspot.com While in Soviet-era East-Germany, guitar companies were developing new instruments for a new society, based on the lutherie tradition of Markneukirchen, with radically new designs and solid technology, capitalist West-Germany was...
- 1960s Hoyer Semi-hollow Telecaster
guitarz.blogspot.com I knew that Hoyer has been producing their own version of the Telecaster since the 1960s (as you can see here, it's never been a mere copy) up to nowadays, but so far I didn't know the semi-hollow version of it. And I...
- Custom 77 Roxy - A New Classic?
guitarz.blogspot.com I know that I probably spend much too much time ranting here about how unimaginative guitar making became in the last decades, so let's cut the crap and rejoice over creative luthiers and small companies that can...
- Jolana Rubin - 1970s Soviet-era Czechoslovakian Semi-hollowbody Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Soviet-era Czechoslovakian semi-hollowbody Jolana Rubin short-scale bass really does look quite glorious. I've no idea what it sounds like or how it plays, but I want it. I am reminded of the Orfeus Hebros bass from Bulgaria...
- Soviet-era Ussr Aelita-2 Guitar By Rostov
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another example of a gloriously cheesy soviet-era (probably 1980s) Russian guitar, the Aelita-2 by "Rostov on Don Musical Instruments Factory" (so it says in the eBay listing). I can't imagine what all the pots and...