This Is A Rare Vintage SALE Item! Hard to Find One of A Kind Sounding Synth Guitar!!!ROLAND Vintage Guitar Synthesizer Controller
"Are you looking for that Vintage 80s style and sound??" "Are you looking to replicate the style of Pat Metheny? This guitar is for you!!)
*Model : G-303*Serial # 423150*May 20th 1980 (assumed date based on the schematic and material in case)((Physically Printed on the material with the guitar)**Serial # Block has been removed from head stock and put below the neck on the body. So there are two holes in the top of the head stock where it was moved from. Maybe this was a playing thing or feel
**-Original Pick Ups and hardware
-Physical Plastic Knobs have 2 that have been replaced
-Metal Hardware in great shape, no signs of pitting or rust
-Plastic Info plate, still in tact and on guitar under tone knobs
-Original Case, this is in Mint shape with little signs of where
$$Included in the sale is an addition set of factory original tuning machines. It appears some of the machines had a longer post than some sets. So these are also included. Factory original as well, logos and all.
We are also including the two pages of G-303 schematics and one page of the parts list that was in the case with the guitar. MAY 20th 1980 is what the Roland Corp Dated on the material that came with this.
(We do not know the person whoms business card is on the back and why. I assume it was where the bought it originally or asked questions about it, as well as the NewEngland Digital, this customer appear to be very meticulous with keeping records of whom and where he got this from.)
Some very minor wear and marks on the guitar. There is a small mark in the wood on the lower right hand side towards the bottom. I have it pictured in a close up Picture #17
Multi Pin connector works and is functional. We have a GR300 polyphonic syth processor pedal here as well and tested it with it.
Some pots are a touch scratchy, but nothing some regular cleaning won't solve.
This is guitar is being sold Completely, AS IS. Beside having out tech and repair shop go over this for play-ability and function of all the switches, we have not done anything else to this.
There are close ups of all the internal parts( we checked it all and looks original, we did not remove any of the circut boards to look under them and see if the physical potentiometers are original or not. But everything looks factory solders and untouched in both compartments in the back of the guitar.
Specs per whom has the most info on this model and specs online. Links for this are also included.
Shipping and insurance protection is the only way we will ship this guitar out. It will be insured for the full value, shipped in its case with internal packaging, as well as external box and safe packaging around the case as well.
This is the darker of the two wood tones that were made in that year.
- Body: Maple top mahogany back
- Neck: Set-in 3-piece maple
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Frets: 22
- Bridge: Fixed, adjustable
- Nut: Polycarbonate
- Tuning machines: Gotoh
- Pickups: Two Roland PU-114H Humbuckers
- Scale: 24 3/4"
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Neck Width: 1 11/16"
- Body Width: 13"
- Body Depth: 1 3/4"
- Overall Length: 38 3/4"
- Weight: 8 lbs 8 oz.
This Link has the manual and schematic sheet. Also has tons of good links.
If there is one guitar that has become the "gold standard" of guitar synthesizers, it has to be the Roland G-303 guitar. No doubt much of the popularity of the G-303 comes from Pat Metheny, who has played this guitar year after year on stages across the world, always amazing audiences with the moving and emotional quality of the G-303 and GR-300 rig.
There is another reason why the G-303 is so popular: it is just a really great guitar. There is no learning curve to the G-303, no time required to "get acquainted," this is a guitar you want to play as soon as you put your hands on it. In Los Angeles I have seen jazz players using the G-303 plugged straight into a Polytone amp, just for the sound and playability of this great axe. In terms of sophistication of design and electronics, the weighty Ibanez IMG2010 comes out way ahead of the G-303, but like the Roland G-707, the IMG2010 is a bit of an acquired taste, and its curious body design means that the Ibanez IMG2010 is virtually impossible to play sitting down without a guitar strap!
The other vintage controllers, the G-202 and G-505, are well-built, fine guitars. But they cannot escape the feel of being really well made Fender copies, no matter how nice they are. The G-303 has a sibling, the G-808. The more expensive G-808 has through-neck construction and other nice features, like gold hardware.
There are some ideas as to why the more expensive, classier G-808 never quite took off with the same following as the G-303. Aside from the fact that Pat Metheny is not dragging a G-808 out every night, the G-808 guitar seems slightly neck heavy when compared to the G-303. Also, vintage guitar synth guru Rich Hilleman has suggested that the through-neck design of the G-808 adds to the resonance of the guitar, making the G-808 less suitable as a synth controller. I have tested and played both guitars, and can not say that I was able to detect a difference.
