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How do we know what "reissue" means?

 

* Is "reissue" a casual term to mean any discontinued model that is revived, whether to original specs, or as an apporixamation, or as an upgrade?

 

* Do manufacturers control the use and meaning?

 

* Are there criteria in a formal definition set by some official sanctioning group?

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How do we know what "reissue" means?

 

* Is "reissue" a casual term to mean any discontinued model that is revived, whether to original specs, or as an apporixamation, or as an upgrade?

 

Seems like it-

 

* Do manufacturers control the use and meaning?

 

Seems like it-

 

* Are there criteria in a formal definition set by some official sanctioning group?

 

The Marketing department

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Yeah, that's about how it seems to me, Marvar.

 

Funny, a guy once said the Squier Duo-Sonic reissue of Fender's 1959 Duo-Sonic should not be called a reissue...and he was not from a manufacturer's marketing department.

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I am not a big fan of "reissues"! I think the term is applied 'loosely' and does not necessarily mean that the instrument is made to 'original specs'.

I say, if you want 'original' then buy vintage....not reissue!

Rod

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