I really love this crazy thing.

Kittyfrisk

But not enough to buy it  
https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/vox-phantom-guitar-organ/1343354006

Kittyfrisk

@HarrySeven ?

Tenebrous

Ooof, that's really cool. Gives me early sci-fi movie vibes.

axisus

Ugly as feck. 

mbe

An organ guitar  what could possibly go wrong?

Funkfingers

H7 already has at least one guit-organ in “project” condition.

The vital phrase, conspicuous by its absence from the Gumtree item description, is “full working order”.

Without that tiny detail, the only dreamer, tyre kicker, time waster is the vendor himself.

robgilmo

The description is a little bleek, my guess is it should read ''found this in my attic, dont know anything about it, cant test it, cant find the full stop button on my key board''.

mbe

How does one kick the tyres on an organ guitar?

Answers on a postcard to...
Mr. Tim E. Waster
c/of Bedroom Guitar Sales
The Recording Studios
Essex

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

H7 already has at least one guit-organ in “project” condition.

The vital phrase, conspicuous by its absence from the Gumtree item description, is “full working order”.

Without that tiny detail, the only dreamer, tyre kicker, time waster is the vendor himself.

Indeed.

I do have one...and am actively looking for another...and another, and another...

But, to the subject in hand....that's way overpriced and almost certainly NOT fully working.

Whether Vox, Godwin (Sisme) or whatever, the only certainty with these failed experiments is that they were entirely unreliable.

A fully working one is a rarity, but that doesn't necessarily add value...the only question is *when* it will stop working, not *if* it will stop working...

JezWynd

White looks much better...

https://reverb.com/item/20253727-vox-v251-guitar-organ

Kittyfrisk

Oh yes, white is very cool. Reminds me of Ian Curtis 

david1050

The price is too high.

ICBM

david1050 said:

The price is bonkers

FTFY

TheMarlin

Arn’t these notoriously difficult to play?

ICBM

TheMarlin said:

Arn’t these notoriously difficult to play?

Yes. They're extremely heavy, awkwardly (un)balanced, the neck feels bizarre because it's huge and doesn't taper towards the nut - in photos, it almost looks like it gets wider, but it's an optical illusion - you can't bend strings because there are six small fret sections so the strings catch in the gaps, and the Bigsby-style trem is creaky and instantly puts it out of tune. And that's even before you try to figure out what all the controls do...

At least, that's my memory of the only one I've actually seen in person.

I suppose as a historical curiosity - in all-original condition, with the case and all the rest of the stuff - it might be worth a fair amount to a collector, even if not working... but as a playable instrument I doubt it's of any real value.

Kittyfrisk

ICBM said:

TheMarlin said:

Arn’t these notoriously difficult to play?

Yes. They're extremely heavy, awkwardly (un)balanced, the neck feels bizarre because it's huge and doesn't taper towards the nut - in photos, it almost looks like it gets wider, but it's an optical illusion - you can't bend strings because there are six small fret sections so the strings catch in the gaps, and the Bigsby-style trem is creaky and instantly puts it out of tune. And that's even before you try to figure out what all the controls do...

At least, that's my memory of the only one I've actually seen in person.

I suppose as a historical curiosity - in all-original condition, with the case and all the rest of the stuff - it might be worth a fair amount to a collector, even if not working... but as a playable instrument I doubt it's of any real value.

You're just trying to get the seller to drop his price, aren't you