Re: Roland GR-500

["Om_Audio" <clifsound@mediaone.net>]

For $400 how can you go wrong?

Cliff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hamburg" <mhamburg@Adobe.COM>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: Roland GR-500


> I've got one but I haven't played it much in quite a while. I don't know
> what the market value would be for one. Sound on Sound magazine did a 
>nice
> history of the Roland GR guitars last summer. As I recall, the 
>description
> of the GR-500 is that it's a synthesizer that happens to be a guitar as
> opposed to a guitar that controls a synthesizer. The writer concluded 
>that
> of the various instruments in the series, the GR-500 was his favorite
> because of it's eccentricities. I would more or less concur that it's an
> interesting instrument that takes approaching it for what it is. It's 
>also
> a decent guitar (the body weighs a ton).
>
> Mark
>
> At 1:54 PM -0700 5/20/00, Andy Soto wrote:
> >  Does anybody knows this unit?? itīs a large analog synth attached to a
Les
> >Paul-like guitar with all kinds of controls for the synth, somebody is
> >offering me a MINT unit  for $400.
> >
> >  the unit is simply gorgeus, but is the price right???
> >
> >
> >Andy
>
>
>