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| 1277.1 | a little info | CASV01::PELLERIN | | Mon Apr 24 1989 16:14 | 12 |
| I went to a Daddy's Yamaha seminar last year (or so) and htey had
some studio guy demoing the things. He stressed things like:
o High quality
o Good wood
He made them sound great, (but he probably could have made a Hondo
sound great) and they seemed like a good guitar. I would trust them
only because I trust Yamaha products, but wood is wood, and you
never know.....
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| 1277.2 | | PNO::HEISER | Don't Bb, B# and you'll look # | Mon Apr 24 1989 17:12 | 6 |
| Personally, I've only played their acoustics. As I posted in the
Keaggy note, he owns a Yamaha SA2000 that he bought in '80. He
refers to it as his most inspirational guitar and his favorite to
play. That says something when the guy owns Strats, Teles, & Pauls.
Mike
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| 1277.4 | | CHEFS::DALLISON | Stepping on the little people... | Tue May 02 1989 11:24 | 6 |
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Guitars may be good but after my experience with a Yamaha DDS digital
Delay/sampler stomp box - I wouldn't touch their FX pedals with a
barge poll.
-Tony
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| 1277.5 | Oh, and a REAL nice neck joint... | ASAHI::COOPER | Shattered Dreamz | Wed May 03 1989 20:24 | 12 |
| My pal has an RGX something or other... It's nice. Bound ebony
neck, basswood body, Yamaha (licensed by Floyd), nice pearl inlays,
active electronics...VERY hot pickups, on-board pre-amp (push-knob).
I'm not sure what he paid for it, but it's comparable to my Charvel
Model 4...And I don't say that very often. ;^)
My only gripe is the wiggle stick isn't quite as accurate as the
jackson unit.
jc
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| 1277.6 | | HAMER::COCCOLI | Ranxerox rool, grep toady? | Sat Jun 10 1989 02:18 | 7 |
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I was at Manny's in NY the other night and they are blowing
out RGX312(?) guitars for $219!!!!.Nice looking and playing."The
price is actually less than Manny's paid for them" said the salesman.
I'm getting mine tomorrow.
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| 1277.7 | | PNO::HEISER | Friday's Child out there running wild... | Fri Jul 21 1989 16:45 | 3 |
| Does Yamaha still make the SA2000? It is a hollow body.
Mike
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| 1277.8 | it looks like a duck... | BMT::BAUER | Evan Bauer,SWS NYO, 352-2385 | Wed Aug 02 1989 01:49 | 18 |
| I was walking passed the Yamaha show room on 57th Street yesterday (you
can just go in and play anything, they don't sell stuff, just show it)
and they had a very deluxe looking hollow body electric in the window
that I think was an SA-2000.
Rough description:
- Cherry sunburst finish
- All gold fittings
- trapeze tail piece ala '50's Gibson's
- Bound neck and body
- 2 (or was it three) humbucking pickups w/ stereo controls
- Gibson L-5 looking headstock
I wanted to go in and play it (it was sooooo pretty) but was late to a
customer call.
- Evan
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| 1277.9 | Any else have one of these? SE700 | PKHUB2::BROOKS | Phasers don't kill, people kill | Tue Mar 21 1995 04:09 | 30 |
| Not much stuff in the Yamaha Electric Dept, huh?
I own a SE700HE circa 1984. It was the first 'professional quality' guitar
I ever had. Wasn't the prettiest instrument, especially after my
sweat-from-hell got into the black hardware. The whammy-bar looks like
it is made of anodized copper, black only here and there. The bridge
hardware isn't coppery, but equally pitted and not so black anymore.
I purchased this guitar in '85 and fell in love with it's versatility.
It has 22 frets, whammy bridge (the non-floating type, those springs
pin the back of the bridge to the guitar, even under heavy strings,
it still required EFFORT to dive-bomb the whammy), two closed humbucking
pickups with coil-tap, controlled by 3-way pickup switch and 1 volume
and 1 tone, a push switch on the tone controlled the coil tap.
The action was pretty fast, the finished bolt-on neck wasn't nearly as fast
as those Jacksons and other HM guitars that came out a couple of years
later, but it was certainly playable, and man is that Strat copy *heavy*.
It weighs more than most basses I've played...but with that -almost-
fixed bridge and large mass, it had great sustain, even if I didn't
after an hour of playing.
I like a pretty guitar, but she wasn't really pretty when new. Now she
looks beat and has errrrr lots of character. She's lost a lot of
playability over the years too. I don't even bother to string
her up anymore. Neck's shot, intonation is poor. Too bad, with a better
neck, and higher quality hardware (and weren't Japanese) she could have
been one of the great instruments we all love.
Larry
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