Inspecting and playing a one-owner Musima Eterna deLuxe - untouched for decades!
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2023
- Not only was this 3-pickup beast the top-of-the-line solidbody guitar made by East-Germany's instrument-making mega corporation VEB Musima - it also spend the last decades completely untouched in its case alongside accessories from the period! Exactly like the original 1st owner put it away after its last show, probably sometime in the eighties. Let's dive right in and experience what it was really like to be a professional guitarist in the GDR! This should be as close as we'll ever get to that, unless someone finally invents a working time machine.
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For those of you dying to know what the catalogue says: Here's a transcript!
Eterna De Luxe
An attractive instrument for the highest demands!
Asymmetrical modern design, painted black, polished to a high gloss. Body contoured for comfortable arm rest, stiletto neck with adjustable metal rod, fingerboard technically excellent, ferromagnetic string cover, 3 pickups with adjustable magnetic screws, they can be mixed with each other using quick select switches located next to the pickups, quick select for melody or rhythm, 1 quick select for melody or banjo effect, 1 volume control, two-way tremolo with ball bearings with adjustable bridge and string damper, all metal parts chrome-plated, 1 connection cable
can you upload the entire cataloge somewhere? seems to be very hard to find such clear images as you have, maybe a link to where you got your version?
like the other guy asked: could you upload the entire catalogue somewhere? there are only very low quqlity scans availible online and its impossible to read the texts.
the other guitars in that catalogue are intetesting too
I'd like to add that there is an old trick of revitalising old strings by boiling thing in water it's supposed to remove all the sweat & grease your fingers put on them, it was always seen as a last option.
Also set up was more hit or miss Elvis Costello first Fender was a tele that was so badly set up from the factory he sold it after a year.
I think this old guitar found a much needed friend, when it landed at your doorstep! It's not a piece of junk, but a real treasure, worthy of respect and love, feed it and heal its wounds, then see what it gives back, I'm sure you'll be surprised..
Very nice historical piece. I love the time capsule effect experienced from cracking open the case. Gives you a glimpse into the life of the guitarist from another era and political theater. Frankly, I found this to be quite a cool instrument. Thanks for the vid.
I like that it has a 0 fret! Brilliant, very underrated feature.
I don’t know why they aren’t on all guitars.
@@deanevangelista6359 I don't know either. All guitars and basses please.
They wear down pretty quickly. I changed mine to a stainless steel one because of it.
This guitar may have originally had a DIN plug, rather than the western-style jack cord input. I've seen other Soviet-era guitars with DIN.
It's amazing that Gibsons and Fenders command such high prices for vintage guitars but for this guitar, in GBP (£) is about £300 for the model you show. Incredible you can have such a historic instrument for such little money.
Sounds great, born for the Blues! Danke...
Mounting point for the vibrato arm makes a lot of sense, being in the center of the rotating rod. I noticed the "F" fret, so it's like Brian May's Red Special with the vibrato and no locking nut, but still comes back in tune because of the lack of friction. The nut is simply a sting guide. Very cool instrument!
Is that the same as a "0" fret?
Thanks for yet another great informative video! Looking forward to your next guitar discovery
Sounds like a good guitar for Nirvana music.
Really interesting! I hope you do more videos on it!
Beautiful guitar
Keep up the good work. Cool show!
That trem is sic
I just subscribed, your content is very good so far, Thank you
Love that guitar ,Take your time ,clean it ,set up, strings ,It will have a original sound. Set ups were good in the 70s and 80s,depends on the guitar.My 78 tele was set up just like it still is ,So is my 90 explorer ,The action on teleis 1.25 mil on the gibson bout .75 to 1 mil..Not much changed like you think ,I will say ,more better guitars now days ,Lots of new companys ,And they make a 4 to 5 hundred guitar better than the old gibsons from the 70s that cost 1500 bucks,Oh yeah believe me I was there and played alot from sears to gibson ,To some of the first Ibanez guitars .
Cool find 😊
a bag full of story and memories
Thank you for this video. I don't play or know much of guitars but there's been one like this in house for 30 years. Color scheme is different though. Don't have an amp to test it so was trying to use multimeter to check resistance on the output to at least see if pickups are alive. It's been bugging me how to switch between respective pickups with the switches but it's actually pretty simple and logical.
I believe the reason for the flatwounds is the zero fret,probably slide easily over it without chewing the fret up,I would take the whole guitar apart, just to clean it up,I wouldn't clean the rusty parts like the pickguard screws but I would shine the body up,lube all the parts,and do a thorough set up,nice find.
Greetings from California 🇺🇸. Are you going to restore that guitar? I would.
When string pak paper was waxed
ACDC sounds great on it. It is a great sounding guitar.
I gotta say, for the condition it was in, just coming out of the case with those ancient strings on it, it sounded AMAZING. Clean it up (not TOO much, needs to keep that vintage look), get some new strings on it and a good setup, and that could be a really versatile working musician's instrument again!
Awesome find. What did it cost you? I remember those picks from the '70s here in Canada.
interesting. keep up the good work.
I was doing a refreshment and overhaul on one of those. The owner, a icelandic artist, bought it for cheap on some european fleemarket. Very heavy, extra ordinary special neck profile. Rather weak pups and all "Plaste" (plastic) parts a bit brittle. This would have been the top-of-the-line model of this producer. Nice find! Needs attention, but cool piece!
Why not restring it and set the action?
I own a Musima lapsteel, plays and sounds pretty good. Looks like it has the same kind of pickups.
The binding is nice. Its been maybe in all different temps and humidity. Gotta check the neck truss rod adjust bridge and nut for different strings. I like it its a way cool axe.
The missing jack would be of the DIN3 or DIN5 type
Nice!
great. keep these weird-guitar vids coming
I only have like, zero to two extra sets of strings max. They go bad pretty quickly in paper. Was this guy changing every session in the 60s?
Also, I'm not surprised the guitar works, but I am surprised the cable does.
Cool guitar bro
I cannot be the only one who immediately thought of a Metallica song …
The switching arrangement reminds me of a Burns guitar I once met.
I'm really intrigued by that bridge damper/mute, and the clever nut + zero fret arrangement.
Nice guitar, flat wounds were just nice playing strings at the time.
The Volkswagon of Strats.... Are you going to show all the old packs of strings again? 😂😂😂
Your English is fantastic….great guitar very fortunate acquisition
That tremolo looks interesting. Recessed? That vibrato could b e Fenders answer to the JM Tremolo
...You knock on her door
She don't recognize your voice no more... great guitar and video!
...so she got on an aeroplane... haha glad you caught that one!
Some of these Musimas were made in Eastern Germany, but to be sold in the West, so they're higher quality, more expensive and were not available in their home country.
where to get that elgita shirt?!?!
Maybe it was setup for slide
0:19 Rock n' roll ain't noise pollution!! Oh, wait...
Only in Germany they have so many spare strings :D
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You got to go through it, if you had a '65-'73 radio or TV you would find a lot of bad leaking capacitors. The tone circuit is probably leaking and shorted by age. Cleaning and lube of tuners and tremolo parts can only do good. Clean up the electronics and get leaky capacitors swapped, it's ok and expected. Other wiring and pickup phase issues should be reviewed, with it replacement jack who knows? Somebody should be able to improve the action even if you have to shim the neck pocket to bring it up. All that's reversible if a collector didn't like it, put the old caps in a little bag and avoid stainless strings, just put modern strings on there and save the vintage sets for the collector interest. That said, it may still have less than modern playability but no reason you can't step it up to its best without affecting it's value. Good luck!
it played well cant get so low action on my tele loses sound or starts buzzing we used to unwrap flat wounds
Hans and Franz
Höfner in East Germany was cutting fret slots through the binding too.
Started playing in 72 and had a piece of junk very cool story🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
You got my subscription. Very interesting. thanks
Hmm... 🙄
What a cool yet confusing guitar.
Somewhat Strat-like,
A bit Burns-ish. . .
But i like~ vibey + unique !
And pricey.
Just open the case
Pearl ? Amp ?
Japanese transistor amp from the 70s. they look like silverface fenders but are very different on the inside. pretty cool little vintage amps that can be had for rather cheap
It's absolutely hideous, yet...I can't look away.
I'm sorry, you are very slow watching Mr. Roger's neighborhood? The guitar is not that interesting. Maybe it's the impression the single-coil pickups could be P90 like DiMarzio's and without canceling noise from shielding - mostly noise also - microphonic from those 3 very old guitar. Good luck & Cheers
Don't be buzz kill.
You must be fun at social gatherings.
My fucking fingers are bleeding just from imagining what the action must be on that thing....
my first electric. action adjustebale like all strats trussrod sadles this late 60s mine 70s had floating trem taked out all electronics wired stight made humbucker from neck and middle sound better then epiphone sold for honda lp good looking crap now us tele
@grimoire7851 what? Seriously...what?
I can't decide if that guitar is ugly or beautiful
It’s “beaugly.”
Looks like a dried up pickled hogs knuckle.
its made after burns designe
....imo,!,,,
Proof that Old doesn't necessarily mean good.. 🤔
Until you tune it
I can make something from the dumpster sound amazing. It's setup and technique and something unknown...
@@user-vc3ol3up1yMy guitar is literally from the dump; a Hohner Strat.
Imo,,,.......hope they dont find out gibson didnt copy this😮😮imo
Grown up poor
Can tell a Home Mase Pick
from a distance