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Friday, August 27, 2004

Things have been rather quiet on the MusicYo front. Here's what's happening (or not yet happening as it were):

USA -> They are still working with several vendors to get around the body bottle-neck. Through 3rd party sources I've conirmed they've approached a respected vendor on the West Coast about doing the guitar bodies, while they're still working with the local place in Nashville on the XQ's. The XQ's should be available in Sept. if the current schedule holds. Guitar bodies are farther out to be sure, but they should be able to better keep these in stock once they do arrive.

SYNAPSE -> Things are still progressing with the new line and they are still hopeful for a holiday season roll-out. Therefore quantities may be limited at first. Confirmed 100% that these will not be sold thorugh MusicYo, but who will carry them is still not official. Still inclined to think it'll be online sites first.

Be prepared to see the guitars sold before the basses. Seems some tooling delays on the hardware might hold up the basses a little bit. They will utilize some of the Synapse designed hardware for the USA line, notably the non-piezo hardtail. Unsure if the pizeo systems will make it over. I reckon they'd like to keep those a
Synapse feature for a while.

SPIRIT -> They'd admittedly been far too low on stock for far too long. With the holiday season approaching they have two large shipments on order, both scheduled to arrive in October. The first will have GP2's, GT Pros, XP & XZ-DB bassses. The later one will have GU's (both Standard & Deluxe), more XZ's inlcuding 5 strings, and XT basses. They'll start posting to their once they get warehoused.

That's it for now. Until the Synapse liine actually shows up and the USA body suplliers get rampd up, things will admittedly be pretty quiet the next few months. As always I'll post any breaking news or updates.
Posted by andyyak 8/27/2004 10:55:23 AM

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

After giving Ned the summer off, we're back with the next Ask Ned column. We'll be moving to a bi-monthly format, as things are a bit quiet right now. Next column he's tackling the 22 vs. 24 fret neck discussion on the upcoming Synaps guitars. . .
Posted by andyyak 8/24/2004 02:09:18 PM

Saturday, August 07, 2004

Finally dug out enough to complete the Synapse Preview report:

http://www.steinbergerworld.com/synapse/synapse-preview.htm

I've included some shots I took at the event, in addition to studio shots Yo shared with me on some of the features. The guys from VintageKramer.com were kind enough to videotape much fo the presentation and we've posted clips of this as well.

If there are any additions or revisions necessary please email me offline. Want to keep this page as a summary for all those curious. We've gotten a lot of people inquiring
about the new line. Best to have it all in one spot I suppose.
Posted by andyyak 8/7/2004 09:54:07 PM


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