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Old 12-27-2018, 12:42 PM   #9
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Mutant Bodies & Experimental Electronics: Navigating the Unmapped Territory of Soviet Guitars
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Beyond the Iron Curtain in the 60s, reference to the ‘capitalist’ guitars that had taken prominence in our zeitgeist was forbidden. The Soviets had to make their guitars from scratch with barely any Western influence, resulting in a sort of convergent evolution of the instrument – they looked similar, had to fulfill the same purposes, but were an entirely different breed.
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Soviet practitioners’ focus on the circuitry over build in many ways imparted a wholly different sound to what we are used to. Soviet guitars mainly used cheap woods or laminates, wacky shapes, experimental forms, and a mess of circuitry.
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