Re: Roland GR-500

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@Adobe.COM>]

For the article, go to http://www.sospubs.co.uk/ and search on GR500.

Mark

At 6:09 PM -0700 5/20/00, Mark Hamburg wrote:
>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