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You can notice some of these guitars have DIN connectors instead of the 1/4 jack so you can use your radio instead of a deficit instrument amplifier.

Your last description was analogous for everything in soviet society. Take it, take it apart, replace everything, then you have something that brings a benifit to man.

II lived in Yu (Croatia today). And when I went to music school, they bought me a CHREMONA (made in Czechoslovakia) classical guitar, total crap. Otherwise, the traditional instruments in Croatia are fiddles, shargi (BiH, Turkey), tambourines, and mandolins. There were and still are masters who make these instruments. And the guitar is simpler to make. So the electric guitar was not a problem either (little electronics and good buy). A local craftsman will make you a superb instrument. I had the opportunity to play a couple of CCCP instruments, it was really bad. And even professional orchestral instruments.

I love the sound of Soviet instruments. The synthesizers were what drew me to Soviet era music. Most think it’s sounds weird or strange but I really love it.

60's Italian guitars like Eko with the accordian style transmission selector switches, colors and paint jobs, trem setup,pickups, are actually pretty sweet players I really like them.

It was not so much about the music itself, but being able to counter the political propaganda. Same was with art.

They worked for КИНО they can work for others

This video is a nice surprise! From my personal experience, I have had some cases with soviet guitars where I live, we had Urals and the East German Musima brand. The one Ural that I played, had been equipped with high quality strings. Our teacher said that the really expensive strings cancel out all the effects from the crappy electronics. What I remember, it sounded average at best, but the most annoying part was the fact, that the Ural used to zap me with electricity. Any other guitar, attached to that amp didn't do that to me. The story of most of these guitars were mostly the same. The string space from neck was closer to cello than a guitar.The strings, as mentioned in the video, were piano strings, so if you managed to press down the razor like string to the fretboard and make a decent sound , you could become the best guitarist in the world. Some of our guys even found these guitars abandoned in the streets. Some of our guitarists just tried to make the instruments themselves with better or worse results. Most of the older players I knew, tried to scramble the 1000 Soviet Rubles, to buy Fenders from the sailors, and it was both extremely frustrating, dangerous and as mentioned in the video, extremely expensive. Even then, getting the electric strings for the guitar was not as easy as it now. They did the same old trick, they pulled out strings from old pianos and tried to sand them down as smooth as possible. Nice video, cheers from Latvia!

Interesting as usual. Side note, Scottish singer Al Stewart in the intro to Roads to Moscow makes A 12 string acoustic sound like a balLaika. Late Russian wife was amazed that he had no connection to Rodina.

Great picture of that band playing in front of portraits of Lenin and Marx.

Some of those old guitars are quite collectible now, I see them on ebay! Drevokov was a Czech maker of guitars, one of which called Grazioso was imported to the UK in the late 50s and was the first instrument of some well known players, not the least of which was George Harrison! Great video!👍👍

Thanks for this video comrade ! I first saw a 70's Ural guitar in the 90's and it reminded me of some 60's Japanese guitars. Very interesting video which explained why the electronics look like army surplus components...they basically are ! I have never even seen a photo of that particular double neck before, I can imagine it weighed a ton !

I’ve been looking for Soviet tube synthesizers, I love their sound!

The Orfeus Solo out shines all of those mentioned

"Betty Swunghole"...?!? What a stupid name! 😆 But seriously, thank you for making the vid...it's very interesting. I think maybe one of the reasons why Soviet guitars didn't sound so good was the unavailability of so-called "tone woods"...Western electric guitars are generally made with woods like maple and rosewood, which apparently have good acoustic qualities.

Jermaine plays a Soviet bass in the old Flight of the Concords show

Very interesting. 🎸 🎶

Thank you!

I have a modern Kremona.. made in Bulgaria. Legend is the founding luthier came from Cremona, Italy. I wonder if Czech Cremona and Bulgarian Kremona are related, and if the legend of the Italian Luthier is true

3:10 You couldn't have sold your childhood guitar in 1985 if your little brother was messing with it since he was born in 1986. 😉

You should start the whole topic of videos. What about amplifiers? Drums? Soviet drums, can you play something else than military marches on a soviet snare drum? =) Violins? There were extremely good (in fact the best in the world) violin players in USSR, who made their instruments?

Heh, very cool. I found some videos of people playing the old Soviet Ural guitars... they sound kinda jangly but not bad. More like guitar from the 1950s.

It never ceases to amaze me how almost everything in the USSR was ersatz in nature. Almost as if they couldn't produce anything genuine or original.

I’ve been wanting to get an old soviet-era bass guitar and restore it.

Nikolayevich, can you do a video on Communist Party membership in USSR and how it affected life and opportunities? Another theme is equity and equality in the USSR. In my opinion there was a class system in the USSR that ran along the lines of people in cities vs villages

I remember the guitarist from Gorky Park had a triangular bodied Kramer with a reversed headstock I thought was so cool. It looked very Russian.

Kino 😎😎

What is the name of the song in the clip at 1:00 ?

I remember seeing in a guitar magazine a Russian guitar that had an image of St. Basil's Cathedral painted on the body. Don't remember the company name though.

Never having thought about it before. suddenly just like that I am way curious about Armenian electric guitars!

Party on Wayne...

I love Rammstein if its a rep of east German music it rules.

Na bezrybiu i rak ryba as we say i Poland as well.

It would be cool to see a video about how people saw the Soviet afghan war

Why did the designers choose the Aelita? I always associate the name Aelita with the 1924 Soviet film. Is Aeltia common Russian female name?

Kazakh at the beginning?

The Shovel lol

A question, what was the musical education, not in school, a conservatory or what ever, if you know.

The Urals are okay. They aren't any better or worse than 60's Teiscos. The biggest problem (Teiscos too) is tgey all have some Rube Goldberg vibrato system.

So rock wasn't left up to the kids in the USSR. They needed mature, physically and socially, peeps. No LSD or pot needed. Until the lights go out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ouch. Psycho Commie is a bit strong.

Allen Watts discribed the USSR as a one company country, and that company also runs the government. I see what he meant now.

ha ha ... the song at the and of the clip is romanian...

Not interesting.