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Yes, we still have 10 left in stock. If you've not yet got yours, you'll need to buy NOW so as to ensure delivery before the start of the New Year. (Those in the UK should receive calendars before Christmas).

Feedback from those who have already bought the calendars has been very positive. The calendars are A3-sized (420 x 300mm), beautifully printed on 170gsm silk coated paper, and feature BRAND NEW EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS of 13 weird and wonderful guitars and basses as submitted by Guitarz readers, including our very own Bertram's "Doppelcaster" twin-neck Tele on the front cover.

To purchase please select location from the drop down menu in the top right hand column of this blog and click on Buy Now. Payment is via PayPal or credit or debit cards.

G L Wilson

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We first looked at Indian slide guitars here on Guitarz back in 2008. The Indian slide guitar is a hyrbid instrument, a musical chimera if you will, where quite literally East meets West and could be considered a cross between jazz guitar, slide guitar and sitar.

This Pro-grade Mohan Veena w Tumba Indian Acoustic Slide Lap Guitar claims to be the first such instrument to be offered for sale via eBay. It appears to have four main playing strings, four drones, and 13 sympathetic strings with machine heads along the length of the neck.



Hear it in the hands of Harry Manx:


Currently listed on eBay with a starting price of $799.99 (plus shipping).

G L Wilson

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OK, it's an iPod promotional guitar, what more is there to say? (Other than you'd feel a right prawn playing one of these). But It Now on eBay for $499.99 - listing ends later today.

G L Wilson

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Here's a slightly different take on the much copied and reinterpretated violin bass. From Italy in 1962, this is a Meazzi Basso Profundo, which in keeping with many Italian-built guitars and basses from that era has a beautifully crazily coloured celluloid finish to the front of the body.

Fetish Guitars tells us that:

Meazzi is one of the most popular labels of musical instruments in Italy, set in Milan rather than in the Castelfidardo area like the Eko & Co. It produced also drums and distributed a range of imported brands until few years ago.

Some late 50s/early 60s Meazzi guitars were produced with assistance from Wandré Pioli, who of course went on went on to produce his own idiosyncratic series of guitars and basses in partnership with Athos Davoli.

This bass is currently being offered for sale via Vintage & Rare, priced at €695.

G L Wilson

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Alex writes:

Hello Gavin

I'm enjoying your site now that I have some time off. You will remember the pearlescent pink Egypt Karnak Osiris 1 which was on eBay a year or so ago masquerading as a Luxor. Well I have hopefully sent you a picture of an Egypt Luxor by way of comparison (I'm a terrible techoluddite unfortunately!). This is an Egypt Luxor in Aurora Nile Blue, it's mostly maple with a hornbeam/wenge core. It has a nice ebony fingerboard and lovely graduated pearl pyramid markers. But the thing to notice especially are the special Egypt "Cleartone" pickups custom made for Jimmy by the great Kent Armstrong.

Kind Regards

Alex

Thanks Alex, it is indeed a very cool guitar. The 1980s don't seem to have been so very long ago to me, but isn't it weird how many have already so quickly forgotten some of the guitar brands of that decade?

G L Wilson

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Howdy from the Deep South (in America, in case there's any confusion)! Anyway I was watching the Colbert Report (a late night political news show they have here in the US, I think you guys in the UK get it on Comedy Central too) and TV on the Radio was there with a Malian band, Tinariwen, that they're presumably buddies with (I'm not sure what a Malian band is doing on American late night television but whatever). One of the members of TV on the Radio (the guitar player I guess, I'm not a fan of the band so I wouldn't know) was playing something that caught my eye: an electric resonator that looked totally boss. It'd be nice if someone over at Guitarz could identify it.

-J

Hi J, thanks for your email. The clue to the guitar's identity is actually in the photo you supplied. See the little shield on the pickguard, that's the National logo. It's a National electric resonator, although I'm unsure of a specific model name or designation.

G L Wilson

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