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Posted: **Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:01 am**

ELGAVA UNIKA-2

24in scale

Made in Moscow(1970s?).

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:11 am**

Neat. That would be fun to fix up.

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:13 am**

Narco Martenot wrote:Neat. That would be fun to fix up.

Yeah,here is some info about this model from cheesyguitars

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:43 am**

it kind of reminds me of that chopped up JM I posted awhile back.

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:47 pm**

might be cool to give her some love and see if it can rock

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:08 pm**

would look great with my sovtek.

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:23 pm**

LOL Terminator

My bandmate has one of these. It plays atrociously but the little built-in amp sounds cool
I recently went on a pilgrimage to my hometown music shop where for years, they had a Quest with a body in the shape of a shark.
It too had a little built-in amplifier. I fully intended to offer the shop owner 25 bucks for it but sadly, it wasn't there anymore.

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:30 pm**

I word of warning though... I spent some time in Russia and tried out some Soviet music equipment... I think it is a fair assumption that neither the designers, nor the luthiers gave a flying f-k about making decent instruments... I think they are deeply instilled with soviet apathy and beyond help...

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:28 am**

yea, that's I've read. they're supposed to sound horrible and play even worse. and I think from a design standpoint they're atrocious. they don't have any of the quirky-cool factor of the 60s japanese guitars, they're just all around badly designed, like the appearance was just a complete afterthought.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:34 am**

some of the effects however look incredibly awesome and I'd really like to try them out.

EDIT: whoa, the russian LEL brand still exists and still make the pedals they made in the 80s. http://www.lell.ru/pedali.htm

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:56 am**

Arent those things made of childrens tears?

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:21 am**

hwestman wrote:I word of warning though... I spent some time in Russia and tried out some Soviet music equipment... I think it is a fair assumption that neither the designers, nor the luthiers gave a flying f-k about making decent instruments... I think they are deeply instilled with soviet apathy and beyond help...

Sovtek Migs yo.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:01 pm**

Holy neck pocket:

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:07 pm**

mage wrote:some of the effects however look incredibly awesome and I'd really like to try them out.

EDIT: whoa, the russian LEL brand still exists and still make the pedals they made in the 80s. http://www.lell.ru/pedali.htm

That looks like the storage thing my parents kept theie vhs tapes in. That said... want.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:33 pm**

Black Cat Bone wrote:
hwestman wrote:I word of warning though... I spent some time in Russia and tried out some Soviet music equipment... I think it is a fair assumption that neither the designers, nor the luthiers gave a flying f-k about making decent instruments... I think they are deeply instilled with soviet apathy and beyond help...
Sovtek Migs yo.

+ 1,000,0000,000.1

My Mig 60 is stunning accomplishment of engineering. How they wired satan into a head case, I'll never understand.

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:33 pm**

If I could get a "Moscow Soviet Army experimental accordion factory" neckplate my life and my hypothetical custom-build would be complete. Kitsch? Gauche? Beautiful. Just beautiful.

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:38 pm**

"This accordeon kills Capitalists"

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:46 pm**

Short scale, so it'd be limited to smashing the petite bourgeoisie.

Posted: **Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:55 pm**

scandoslav wrote:Short scale, so it'd be limited to smashing the petite bourgeoisie.

Fucking hell, noob! That's a grand entrance!

A+ post - would read again!

Posted: **Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:37 am**

endsjustifymeans wrote:A+ post - would read again!

(I seriously want that neck plate, no joke.)

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