1979 GRECO SE450 STRATOCASTER all fixed up. скачать в хорошем качестве

1979 GRECO SE450 STRATOCASTER all fixed up.

This December 1979 Greco Stratocaster, made in the Fujigen Factory (who went on to make Fender Japan guitars), needed a little bit of TLC. Now it's rocking. Seems to be all stock, with what I believe are Maxon PU119 pickups. Video Timing: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Clean up and fix up 3:12 Sounds 6:20 Specs 7:29 Identifying this Greco 8:40 End Jam Thanks for checking it out Dunsy #greco #grecoguitars #madeinjapan Greco History Kanda Shokai was established in 1948 and the Greco brand name was started in 1960. It was not until 1966-1967 that Kanda Shokai began marketing Greco Telecaster-like models. Originally, Kanda Shokai used the Greco brand name for the solid-body models and the Canda brand name for its acoustic models, basing the latter on the company name Kanda. In the mid-late 1960s, Kanda Shokai also exported some Greco-branded guitars based on Hagström and EKO designs for Avnet/Goya in the USA. These guitars were made by the FujiGen and Matsumoku (and possibly Teisco guitar factories and were very similar to the late 1960s Ibanez guitars based on Hagström and EKO designs. Kanda Shokai also marketed a few original designs in the late '60s including the Greco Semi-hollow "Shrike" guitars, which were imported and marketed first by Goya and later by Kustom. The "Shrike" model had a pair of unusual L-shaped pickups, with the corner of the "L" pointing towards the headstock on the neck pickup and towards the bridge on the bridge pickup; these "boomerang" pickups predate the Gibson Flying V2 boomerang-shaped pickups by over ten years. In the early 1970s Kanda Shokai marketed Greco Gibson-like models, but with bolt-on necks rather than the set necks of genuine Gibson guitars. These were very similar to the Ibanez Gibson-like models available at that time, and most had a script Greco logo. By the mid–late 1970s most Greco Gibson-like models were being made with set necks and open-book Gibson headstock designs. Some other Greco Gibson-like models from the 1970s had a different headstock design, more like a Guild headstock design, that had a Greco logo with equally sized letters. Starting in 1979, the Greco "Super Real Series," which made available high standard replicas of Gibson and Fender models, was introduced. Beginning in 1982, the Greco "Mint Collection" continued the high standard of the "Super Real Series." In 1982 Kanda Shokai and Yamano Gakki become part of Fender Japan, and Kanda Shokai stopped producing its own Greco Fender replica models. Since the end of the Greco open-book headstock Gibson replicas in the early 1990s, Kanda Shokai have produced various models using the Greco brand name such as the "Mirage Series" (similar to the Ibanez Iceman), various Gibson copies (not using the open-book Gibson headstock design), and Höfner-styled violin-shaped basses. The company also owns Zemaitis Guitars, now made by Tokai. Some notable guitar players who have used Greco guitars include Ace Frehley, who used Greco Les Paul replicas when his band, Kiss, was on tour in Japan, Millie Rose Lee of Dead Witch, and Elliot Easton of The Cars. Peter Tork of The Monkees on his 1979–1981 solo tours had two of the Tobacco Sunburst Les Paul models. The Greco BM line is particularly notable as they are semi-endorsed signature models. Brian May played (or at least mimed) his BM-900 on several television appearances in 1983.