Maestro by Gibson....

[Suicidehummer]

I have a friend' date=' well maybe acqaintance is a better word who has a Chinese wife, and she says that a lot of Chinese are so in love with the Western world that all they buy is American if they can get it. She says it might have something to do with their notions of liberty and so-called freedom.[/quote']

 

Or it's a backlash at the Japanese who hate our cars. The Chinese consider Buick the absolute best cars, then Cadillac, then BMW/Mercedes, and Japanese cars at the bottom.

 

Europeans obviously consider BMW/Mercedes the best.

 

Aussies like Holdens and Fords.

 

The Japanese like Hondas and Toyotas.

 

And Americans like anything foreign.

[pohatu771]

 

Yeah' date=' amazing, isn't it? But, then, "American" guitars were almost

unheard of, in England, and/or Europe, and certainly not at the price

point, they could have managed. Although John did get his Rickenbacker

fairly early on. We're so spoiled now, especially here, in the US, it's unbelievable! LOL!

My buddy in Jr. High/High School, started out on a Harmony H15 (solid body twin pickup)

that looked like a smaller version of a Fender Jaguar...similar body shape, that is.

DeArmond pickups, I believe...and, you know what, it wasn't a bad little guitar...

for no more than it cost! We did (both) eventually get our "Fender's" and later Gibson's,

but that little Harmony didn't sound half-bad, really. Might be fun to see what it would

sound like through a Marshall stack, now. LOL!

 

CB [/quote']My first guitar has a Fender logo... it's a smaller logo underneath a Squier logo, but it says Fender nonetheless.

[pohatu771]

Is there even one VCR company that's American?

I was with my parents looking at a new TV, and my mom said that she wanted to buy an American TV...

 

There were actually several to choose from, but most were low-quality. She wanted a Sony... until I told her that they were Japanese.

 

Polaroid makes a very nice high-definition LCD, though, and they're American. She ended up with a Sylvania.

 

I have a Samsung... which I got for a steal.

[TheX]

I was with my parents looking at a new TV' date=' and my mom said that she wanted to buy an American TV...

 

There were actually several to choose from, but most were low-quality. She wanted a Sony... until I told her that they were Japanese.

 

Polaroid makes a very nice high-definition LCD, though, and they're American. She ended up with a Sylvania.

 

I have a Samsung... which I got for a steal.[/quote']

 

The Polaroid TV's are actually imported by the Petters Group from China, they license the Polaroid name.

[Ricochet]

 

You've not used a single fact.

Your argument here' date=' is based on absolutely no evidence.

 

Cartrivisionv was the first VCR and first american VCR.

 

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[byrds1965]

I have a friend' date=' well maybe acqaintance is a better word who has a Chinese wife, and she says that a lot of Chinese are so in love with the Western world that all they buy is American if they can get it. She says it might have something to do with their notions of liberty and so-called freedom.[/quote']

 

I work with a guy who is Chinese and the same story. I guess as a county we are not too bright. The greedy companies keep moving to China. The Americans want the MIC stuff and Chinese want American stuff. He was the one that pointed it out to me at one point.

 

According to him most of the knock off stuff being made in China started as a way the Chinese could afford the same stuff they are making. They want American jeans, shoes, music, movies, anything they can get.

 

They seem to have learned our ways fast in that: some one always wants something for nothing and they now have a market for all these fake Epiphones. I don't see how if you just buy from stores or the legit online dealers if you live in the country how these fakes keep showing up.

 

Stop buying the junk and it will dry up.

[Nic]

I just looked for Maestro material on YouTube and laughed my way through this one....these kids are a riot. It's been a long time since I had that kind of energy.

 

Jamming on a Maestro

 

 

I think this kid defines the Maestro market.

[johnpaulgeorge]

Epiphone, although owned by Gibson, is a legitimate brand in it's own right, dating back to 1923,

although Epimanondas' father, Anastasios Stathopoulo, began constructing musical instruments as

far back as 1873. Orville Gibson didn't start making guitars until 1894 & the Gibson Corp. wasn't

founded until 1902. I think what I'm trying to say is,( without meaning any offence to anybody) if

you want a guitar that looks exactly like a Gibson, Buy a Gibson. IMHO Epiphone are big enough in

their own right not to need to make exact clones of Gibbo's, they produce decent guitars whilst still

retaining their own identity & also some classics of their own (Casino anybody ?)

Well, rant over !! Hope I've not upset anyone.