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Tim_Gueguen (Tim_Gueguen)
Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:04 pm:   
So folks, how many of you have run into Ibanez's short lived mid 80s MIDI guitars? I'm curious because there are two in different pawn shops in this neck of the woods. One shop has the "brain" and cable for the thing for sale separately. Given that they didn't stay in production that long its funny to find two in one place. Of course it brings up the question of where the rack unit for the second one is....
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Johnm (Johnm)
Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 3:37 am:   
I have never seen one. I do have a catalog that shows these rather strange guitars.
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Mr_Roadstar (Mr_Roadstar)
Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 4:13 pm:   
Are you refering to the X-ing models? There's a couple up on eBay right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2504441264&category=33043

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2502992222&category=33043

XING

Cheers
Steve
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Orval (Orval)
Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 6:40 pm:   
they are not that common, but were offered in
both silver and black finish. as to the missing
parts-----cables rarely show up, but brainboxes
and the guitars show up by themselves more often
that a complete setup.
thanks
orval
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Tim_Gueguen (Tim_Gueguen)
Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 10:53 pm:   
Yep, thats the one. They were designed to be compatible with the Roland guitar synth stuff of the era so its possible someone ended up using the rack unit with a Roland guitar. In any case the examples here are I suspect likely to sit in the pawn shops for another 5 years or however long they've been in there.
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Johnm (Johnm)
Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 3:16 am:   
The cable in the picture can also be used to connect your midi guitar to your printer. :-)
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Raceboy (Raceboy)
Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 7:19 am:   
How do you get distortion out of the printer?;-)
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Fredb (Fredb)
Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 4:51 pm:   
From what I've heard, the '80s MIDI technology doesn't track that fast, guess that means no '80s shredding on the '80s MIDI guitar, oh well...

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