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Hawaiian electric

Hawaiian electric lap steel slide is designed for the game. It was the first guitar of this type in the world to elekrousilenie sound, in the wake of which were full-fledged electric. This guitar was made at the Moscow Experimental Musical Instruments Factory (Moscow Experimental Factory Bayanov them. Soviet army) in the 60s-80s, complete with wooden guitar was pasted leatherette carrying case and slide for the game.
The body guitar - completely solid wood - beech covered with transparent varnish.
Kolka - both Soviet acoustic guitars - an open, but covered with plastic caps on the reverse side.
The face of the whole head is covered with a lid made of plexiglass.

Similar Plexiglas cover prikryvyaet tailpiece, bridge (a brusochek wood with a metal rod inserted).
Guitar Electronics is a single cartridge - single railway closed, with a very low yield and tembroblok consisting of volume and tone, from the end of the connector is of the "household outlet."





Probably the most odious string Musical instruments issued in the USSR - the product of Yerevan factories, combining solo guitar and bass korotkomenzurny.

Device.

The quality of the guitar - close to the handicraft (in the worst sense of the word). Body - collected by the classical Soviet model, a set of longitudinal wooden beams, sheathed with plywood. The bars either from improper storage, or on the quality of gluing slug dispersed. Load body is very rough, uneven verge immediately apparent (note: thrown when the eye priterpitsya to the already eerie hull lines). Form vaguely reminiscent of a tonic.
Covered with unusually thick and strong, even by Soviet standards, a layer of polyester lacquer colors "Stardust" - black lacquer mixed with golden crumbs. Cover, according to the stiff ugly streaks in samples by "dipping" as recommended on the labels of containers with paints.
The samples are very large and deep, almost the entire thickness of the body - like a car, and under the electronics, but in fact nothing in the original configuration are not filled.
Vultures - fastened with three screws through the metal nekpleyt-triangle "walk" even under tension thick strings. Bass neck - of spotted maple, guitar - not the birch, linden not (note: it is necessary to assume that in the different parts of the different instances went different trees, some arm across, without any logic). Vultures without anchors and pads, thick and narrow, rectangular, rounded body of the guitar. Covered with the same polyester varnish with glitter.
Scale Length guitar and bass - 650mm and 810mm respectively.

Iron.

Typewriter guitar - a copy of the tremolo JOLANA, which had also circulated in the Belarusian and Russian Aelita copies FUTURAMA. Tailpiece Bass - steel frame with holes for strings. Lower sills kept under tension strings; in this instance lost. Kolka - guitar the same as in Lunacharskys guitars, but with sleeves, mechanics - 6x1; bass - original, it seems, the production - small, with heavy cast blade circular shape, 2x2. The quality of the mechanics will not comment.

Electronics.

Sensors - branded Yerevan, nickel-plated tray with perloidnym liner in the box, fragile reel in oiled paper, a magnet with six grooves. On the bass half sensors are the same, with six "magnitovodami" in the magnet. Electric scheme, the concept as follows: different combinations of guitar pickups included galetnikom, bass sensors operate in parallel and no settings are not. TONE - the toggle-type "light in the toilet" to switch between guitar and bass guitar, the overall tone of the total volume. Nest - Cr5. The surviving fragments pikgardov - Plexiglas, inside painted with red lacquer and pasted foil. Strongly it looks like attempts to pioneer, but hurt exactly cut flaps and carefully made holes for the screws. Switching - through the bore holes between the samples, the machine has ground to a guitar.

General impressions.

For all its monstrousness external tool rather is light (5 kilograms - the weight of the bass URAL little to dvuhgrifovoy guitar), quite comfortable in the hand, it has a normal balance. Vultures person familiar with Soviet tools do not seem uncomfortable body does not interfere with play bass or guitar - either left or right hand. The sound of the instrument - a sharp, empty, plastic, slightly muffled - and the huge impact the sample in the housing, and a lousy tree and unstable fixation vultures and weaknesses sensors. Extremely valuable exhibit in the collection, but it is hardly applicable in the music, except for mozgodrobitelnyh experiments. Apparently assumed that the copy will be used in VIA flexible or restricted composition of the musicians, but this history is silent



Electric Turist1

A new discovery in the Soviet guitar industry - hiking electric "Tourist", with built-in amplifier and speaker, outwardly resembling a Telecaster. Unfortunately discovered instance lost all their e-filling and has no markings, which could determine the exact place of production. According to some people the ability to produce in the tourist city of Chernihiv, like some more guitar of unknown origin but with an identical form of the neck, however, confirm the production of electric guitars in this city have not yet succeeded.



Elektromandolina

Elektromandolina produced Yerevan factory of musical instruments. Solidbody instrument neck without an anchor, 22 frets, two mounting screws (in contrast to other products of this factory did not put on the tool plate for screws). Kolka - two plates 4 Kolka each, are similar in design to those that completed the Leningrad factory of guitars. Lunacharsky. Pickups - two singles, unregulated height, with metal caps that are substantially smaller than the cap pickup is placed on the other guitars in this factory. Neck and body are covered with a thick layer of polyester lacquer with sparkles. Coating cracking when exposed to extreme storage conditions. Schematic diagram - Pen total volume and tone knob. Output - Connector 5 DIN. Tailpiece - a thin plate with holes holding due to string tension at the toe. Bridge unfixed, you can adjust intonation and string height lift.
This tool is rare, as the ukulele, because amateur ensembles unused, and more or less serious Orchestra disdain because of poor workmanship.



And of course that's what we should mention

Legendary URAL

Truly legendary electric guitar! About her folded as myths and legends, no matter how much about one another guitar! It represents a completely all the features of the Soviet electric guitars, as well as the most mass-produced electric guitar in a secular alliance - were produced over 100,000 copies, and it is only at the Sverdlovsk plant! And when you consider that the Ural was carried out also in the Rostov, Ordzhonikidze and Borisov factories, it becomes clear that the electric Urals was released about the same as Fender Stratocasters released.
Ural 650 is not really such a bad electric, as it tells. It weighs about the same as a real Fender Stratocaster - mind you, not as Chinese or Korean fake Squier - they Deck 1, 5cm. about thinner to save accordingly they are much easier. Hearing about the severity of the Urals, it went from the young musicians who are not having the available amount of money needed to buy expensive electric guitar from the hands of the Ural 500r. and then passing it on to the Phil Pro - admired how the Korean easier and more convenient as it is easy to play. Yes indeed Urals - a harsh guitar, and in all the mud, which he poured some truth - rather thick neck, thick, tall, not neat, often polished frets that after the 20-year shrinkage of the tree begin from a bulge - the neck for many less convenient than the thin neck of all modern electric guitars. But ... such elite pricey electric company PRS, namely registered Guitar Carlos Santana, who stand as the new car has the opposite thick necks - an occasion to reflect whether a thick neck is evil? But even if a thickened neck advantage of the frets still quite spoil the feel of the game and may even lead to injury - cuts, got out of the way. However, the problem is easily eliminated quality modes - any master you can change modes, and this is not that expensive service, which in the end is not so difficult to do yourself - frets in stores are not so expensive. Stop! It's legendary curiosity! - I'm not going to change it in anything, then I, or my grandson, helped him a lot of money! .. If you think so - is to disappoint you, Ural has no collectible value.
Shape deck Urals likely was borrowed from Yamaha SGV800, has anatomical cutouts that makes the tool very convenient, it is made as well as neck of beech, but rather on domestic technology "Sandwich with beech" guitar was usually three or more glued bars in the center of the timber of beech, pine is usually the side, the same beech, sometimes other more and less valuable varieties of wood, top and bottom of the deck veneer, not to polish wood and to hide his shortcomings, as well as to facilitate milling of wood. Grif is made of beech wood, too, meets the Fretboard maple, birch, I overlay of oak, not polished. Grief is attached to the deck at the 4 bolts through the body that are covered nekpleytom. Under nekpleytom deck in the middle between the bolts fastening the neck hole is to adjust the anchor, which is virtually impossible to regulate through this hole - indeed need to be David Blaine, to regulate the so-anchor. Theoretically, for adjusting the anchor on the tip it has a drum with holes in the end, in which to insert the spokes to rotate the head of the anchor, but in practice this system does not work because nifiga there are no needles, so they are not bent - the only way to remove the neck and regulate thin screwdriver with a long handle.
Tremolo in the Urals carried out in the spirit of vintage tremolo, the system resembles his Fender Jaguar. Unlike the classic Fender vintage tremolo, which is working on lowering the sound via a lever in the Urals tremolo works as bullish, and the lowering of the tone of sound, but because of the tight little spring to get into the semi-tone arm is not possible, and the return of the lever to its original position system is not returned to the guitar.
Electronics Urals - the dark forest. The best that has clear purpose: 3 on / off button pickups, one button on / off tone control for each pickup, tone knob for each pickup and a general volume control - such a scheme was put to the Urals release until 1980 at the Sverdlovsk plant. Ural trucks to other factories and Sverdovskih Ural trucks manufactured after 70g. Typically less clear assignment of the same TONE. Ural Sverdlovsk 80s release features new pickups with interesting pattern, the same pickups put on production Borisov Ural factory, which differed from the Urals Sverdlovsk wooden bridge is not fixed and better frets. Ural trucks released in Rostov and Ordzhonikidzhe different from Rostov pickups such as in Aelita and tonic. Pickups Urals - a lottery. On my Urals all three pickups have completely different resistance, number of CMV turns, and even a section of wire in the coil wire material because of this, all three pickups can be utterly useless if on the contrary quite workable. I was pretty lucky - two of the three pickups have sufficient access to be able to play on reloading, though it is the middle and bridge pickup, and nekovy got very dead. Since middle pickup, I do not think it necessary, I swap the nekovy and middle pickups. It was very good, the middle pickup, which now stands in nekovoy position feels like home, besides the sensor was the most fonoustoychivym of all three, so I prefer to play it. By the way, when I changed the pickups I was not lazy and cook them in paraffin strong killing effect of the microphone, which is characteristic of all Soviet pickups.
If you do not include a tone-the Ural fonit not stronger than any unshielded Korean with singles, but it is certainly, if you are going to play in the Urals, then do the screening and be sure to cook the pickups in paraffin, if we add new frets and alteration of native connector Cr5 a modern Jack - we obtain guitar, on which you can play, learn and play in small clubs.



* Guitar "Ural" was designed by Soviet engineers to frighten capitalists.
* In every guitar "Ural" built all gadgets mira, switchable secret codes, with the insertion grips
* None of the musician of the world not yet fully understand these pens
* Only a true mega-guitarist able to play the guitar "Ural" as quickly and easily as the others. Truth mega-two guitarists in the world: Sergei Mavrin and Chuck Norris.
* If the truck "Ural" face motorcycle "Ural" at top speed, they will merge together into a guitar "Ural" is the same weight as a truck with a motorcycle. This is the usual way to produce guitars «Ural»
* Gopnik dislike metalheads. Gopnik afraid of the police. But really just horrified guitars «Ural»
* None of the musician in the world was able to smash a guitar on the stage "Ural". All the Guitar "Ural", which breaks - cheap Chinese fake
* Guitar "Ural" ordinary series so heavy because there is a tree with a giant compressed koefitsientom compression. Therefore, on the one guitar "Ural" goes a whole grove
* VIP model guitar "Ural" made of bricks
* Guitar "Ural" were taken out of production because they recognized the weapons of mass destruction
* Sergei Mavrin not playing the "Ural" just because he heard this guitar with a guitar, all the musicians of the world will hang
* For comfortable playing the guitar "Ural" brick requires mediators
* Guitar "Ural" - the world's only physical object that is fucking heavy, even in conditions of weightlessness
* Dream Home Yngwie Malmsteen - Guitar «Ural»
* They say that among the countless knobs and switches on the guitar "Ural" has detonators atomic bombs planted in the decaying capitalism
* Chuck Norris - the only person in the world who can play on the special model "Ural" with the tremolo arm. Because that sound at least a little changed, it is necessary to press the lever with the force of 18 elephants
* Fender Stratocaster - cheapest of being a "Ural", a bet that it came before !!!
* In the Cold War, the US government lied to the citizens that the Soviet Union is full of nuclear weapons. The truth was terrible - we had a guitar «Ural»
* Chuck Norris once hit Gopnik guitar "Ural" with a reversal. Gopnik has moved from being hit in 1945, he told the Germans about the guitar "Ural" and they capitulated
* They say that the bass "Ural" bad sound. Nothing like this, they just make such bass notes that the human ear can not hear.
* In childhood Sergei Mavrin he broke his arm just when he tried to make a lift to the "Ural»
* Guitar "Ural" do not be upset if its hold over the middle strings on weight. We come off the hand of the stupid guitar and smashed his foot.
* In a secret bunker in the center of the earth contains a prototype guitar URAL X-X-EL. It has 10,000 of adjustment knobs and six tremolo. It weighs a thousand megatons, and occupies an area of ​​a football field. The engineer who invented it was afraid of his creation, and commanded to drag the bunker
* Yngwie Malmsteen cuts fastest solos on his Stratocaster guitar but "Ural", he will be able to play unless the "grasshopper" and then slowly
* When Chuck Norris or a crowd of elephants will press tremolo arm on a special guitar model "Ural" to the end, put on his shell and release the projectile will reach Alpha Centauri
* Guitar "Ural" is able to withstand roundhouse kicks Chuck Norris.
* Guitar "Ural" to shelter from a nuclear explosion
* Everyone says that the guitar "Ural" sound sucks because the pitiful standard eight pickups are not able to convey the true sound of her





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