Gibson Maestro Rhythm n Sound G-1 Guitar Synth

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"Here is a super clean Maestro G-1 that was just found in the attic of an old music store. The owner of the store said that's his handwriting from 1968 or 9 on the price card. He forgot about it in the attic storage until this last month.

I have fully tested and played with it for several hours, it is fully functional, smells amazing, sounds amazing, and is a real stunner! Instant Beach Boys! The tracking is amazing, the sounds are fresh today, cool drums triggered from pick attack of the guitar, an immaculate octave down string bass, a nasty fuzz octave down, incredible filters, tons of control, infinite possibilities and will work with any 1/4" input."

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Maestro Rhythm N Sound G-1 Analog Guitar Synthesizer by Gibson 1969

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"If you're looking at this you probably already know what this is. If not, this is a very cool, vintage guitar synthesizer effect designed for guitar (but works with other instruments, too). Basically, you can use your guitar to trigger these analog drum sounds and/or bass down octave, with or without fuzz. You can blend in the guitar with its 3 "Color Tones" or have it just play the synthesized sounds. Very cool, vintage box in really great condition.

Comes with original, fully operational case. Original foot switch is in perfect condition and is included."

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Maestro by Gibson G-1 Rhythm n Sound SN 504273

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Gibson Maestro W3 Effects Synth with Pedal SN M-05402

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via the listing: "Maestro by Gibson Sound System for Woodwinds Model W-3. Serial # M-05402. This is a cool old effect system developed for woodwinds, but sound incredible with guitar, bass, and keyboards (synthesizers) too. Includes w-3 unit, foot pedal and the case. It's in perfect working condition! I had the 1/8" input converted 1/4" so you can plug a guitar or bass right in without an adapter. This is the only version with the footswitch and connector into the machine. All light switches and pots work..."

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Gibson Maestro W-3 Sound System For Woodwinds SN M-05456

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"Maestro by Gibson Sound System for Woodwinds Model W-3. Serial # M-05456. This is a cool old effect system developed for woodwinds, but sound incredible with guitar, bass, and keyboards (synthesizers) too. Includes w-3 unit, foot pedal and the case."

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Gibson Maestro W-3 W3 Hammond Woodwind Synthesizer

Maestro Gibson Woodwind Synth W3 [circa 1967]

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Guitar Loop Processed by 200e & friends

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"A simple guitar loop goes through a bunch of processing with the Echoplex sending midi clock to the Machinedrum. The sends on the Mackie go into the Buchla which does nothing without an input signal. No clock on the Buchla, just catching envelopes to run pulses here and there."

Gibson Clavioline w/ amp, schematics and extra tubes

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Vintage Gibson Maestro W2 Woodwind Synthesizer

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"Made In 1967 By Gibson Under The Maestro Name

For Clarinet Or Saxophone But Useful For Any Audio Source. Was used With Tenor Sax, Synths And Drum Machines....

Brief Description:
A Variety Of Effects Via Toggles And Knobs
Beginning At A 1/8" Mono , the Audio Is Summed At The Output Via 2 1/4" Jacks For Mono Or Stereo Results

Sound Rocker Switches are split Into 2 Colors, Blue & Yellow

> The Blue Side Features Rocker Switches For Fuzz Tone, Cello, Tuba, Bass Sax, Bass Clarinet, And Bassoon
> The Yellow Rocker Switches Include English Horn, Oboe D'amore, Muted Horn, Natural Amp
> Blue And Yellow Knobs Both Control Volume And Filter Or "Tone"
> The Tremolo Effect Is Shared By Both Sides Post Rocker Switches"

Ableton Rack 32: Gibson Pad

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"A virtual instrument created with the sounds of an acoustic guitar. The strings of my Gibson acoustic were sampled and racked up in Ableton Live to create a lush pad sound. Enjoy and spread the word!

Download @ http://bit.ly/freesynth32

Every week I release a free Ableton Live Download @ http://www.afrodjmac.com

Thanks for your support and have fun!

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Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus

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"This is is as good as they get, as it has maxed out memory as well as the latest operating system Loop IV. This listing includes the Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus and original box, foot pedal, and power cable."

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Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus w/ Foot Controller & Original Box

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Gibson Clavioline France Selmer ondioline synthesizer

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"1950's Made in France Clavioline. I suspect this was a Gibson model since the 6 pin plug on it matches the Gibson schematic. These were made under license by many companies in many countries. Probably most famous for that 'Telstar' lead sound, also used on the Beatles 'Baby you're a rich man' (that weird Indian sounding oboe sound) and in modified form on 'Runaway'. I don't know that anyone is using one of these today in music outside of tribute/cover bands. Who knows, one of these may end up on an upcoming Daft Punk or Air record.

Physical condition: paint has lots of little scratches and dings as can be seen in the pictures but nothing is broken, all keys are in good shape -no cracks -just some scratches that will polish out, all toggles are in good shape and toggle, volume lever is present and its guts look clean, tuning knobs on either side are present and turn easily and all the hardware holding it together looks like the original hand made French Cad or Nick plated stuff. All in all a nice unit to restore or just clean up and use.

Functional condition: All the cloth bound wiring looks to be original without any cut wires. All capacitors are the original 'Tiny Chief' items and will likely require replacement. All tubes are in good shape -though untested. All the keys feel like they're doing what their supposed to. As far as using this, these were designed to be mated to an amplifier that provided power. I don't have the amp. I was going to build a break-out box that powered the unit, conditioned the signal coming out, had a regular volume pot and a 1/4" instrument jack. Not a big job for a competent DIY tube electronics type.

Box will be 26" x 18" x 8" and weight about 18 pounds."

Pics of the inside at the auction and below.

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Gibson G101 Keyboard Organ Piano Synthesizer

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Update: Light My Fire on my Gibson G101 organ and Piano Bass video added to the bottom of this post via Tim Volk on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.

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Vintage Gibson Maestro W-2 Woodwind Synthesizer Effects

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"Made In 1967 By Gibson Under The Maestro Name, For Clarinet Or Saxophone But Useful For Any Audio Source. Tested With Clarinet, Synths And Drum Machines...."

Vintage Gibson Maestro W-2 Woodwind Synthesizer Effects

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"Vintage Maestro W-2 Woodwind Sound System.
Complete With Case,
Pick-up (For Clarinet),
Pick-up Connecting Wire,
And Original 1/4 Mono Patchcord.
A Variety Of Effects Via Toggles And Knobs,
Beginning At A 1/8" Mono , Sound Is Split Into The 2 Colors,
The Blue Side Features Rocker Switches For Fuzz Tone, Cello, Tuba, Bass Sax, Bass Clarinet, And Bassoon.
The Yellow Rocker Switches Include English Horn, Oboe D'amore, Muted Horn, Natural Amp.
Blue And Yellow Knobs Both Control Volume And Filter Or "Tone".
The Tremolo Effect Is Shared By Both Sides Post Rocker Switches,
Finally Audio Is Summed At The Output Via 2 1/4" Jacks For Mono Or Stereo Results."

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DIERKS STUDIOS' Maestro W-3 by GIBSON Wind Synth

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"Maestro W-3 by GIBSON sound system For Woodwinds... This unit came from the world famous DIERKS STUDIOS Stommeln, has a sticker of the studio over the Maestro logo, the housing is painted orange and sprayed with DIERKS STUDIOS all over, was used by many celebrities back then."

Rick Powell Collection - Gibson Maestro Sound System for Woodwinds

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"This unit is part of the Rick Powell Collection. Rick was a musician, a major producer and a contemporary and close friend of Bob Moog, among others, and often received original units from manufacturers to test in the studios...

This is a vintage Maestro Sound System for woodwinds (It allows a choice between clarinet and sax at the input). It's a "sort of" synthesizer that will take the input from your woodwind pickup and allow you to select from a bank of sounds that it emulates as you play. Seems really simple to operate, which is good because we don't have the manual for this. So let's say you pop in your clarinet and select Baritone Sax... it comes through the speaker an octave lower with a nice growl. Same with Tuba, etc. It's in fine condition - really good condition. You can ALSO do combos of sounds as you play. Very interesting piece of gear. These are the sounds:

Contra, Fuzz Tone, Cello, Tuba, Bass Sax, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, English Horn, Oboe, Muted Horn, Natural Amp"

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Vintage Gibson W2 Maestro Woodwind Guitar Synth Effect

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"The sounds that come out of this thing are absolutely insane. Most unique effects box I have heard. The beauty is you can plug any thing in to the 1/8" input jack. ANYTHING Woodwinds (what it was designed for) Guitar, Keyboards, Bass, and even drumbeats and mixes. Just some adjusting of the sensitivity knob. It applies the early synth like filters with organ bar style controls. Best described as an octaver/fuzz/synth with tremolo. Any musician or engineer or DJ could benefit from the unique tones to set them apart. Super rare only manufactured in 1967."

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