Maya kopi af Gibson Grabber

Ældre japaner i god form. Den er ret tæt på at være en klon af Gibson Grabberen G-1.

Om Gibson originalen kan man læse:
The Gibson Grabber was a bass guitar introduced in 1973 along with the Gibson Ripper. The Grabber featured a bolt-on 34 1/2" neck like the Fender basses and shared a similar body with the Ripper. The Grabber also had a V-shaped headstock like the Gibson Flying V guitar. What made the Grabber truly unique from other basses was its sliding pickup to which the name refers. The bassist was able to position the pickup by sliding it either up or down to simulate a neck or bridge pickup. The pickup was brighter than the traditional Gibson style humbuckers, which made it sound more like Fenders. The Grabber had one volume, one tone control and a removable bridge cover. The Grabber was originally built with a thin, maple body, but it was changed to alder in 1975.

"Fandt denne bid på nettet":
I am looking high and low for any and all information on Maya Guitars.
I know that they were made in Kobe Japan by the Maya Guitar Co... The
plant where they were manufactured was destroyed in the 1990s by an
earthquake. They made high quality knock offs of Gibson and Fender
Guitars.
På nettet er der meget delte meninger om Maya. Det er faktisk ret naturligt da deres udvalg var lidt for bredt. Man kan "være heldig" og finde noget skrammel og man kan finde instrumenter i fuld professionel kvalitet. Det er ikke en svingende produktionskvalitet, men en stor vifte af forskellige kvalitetsniveauer.
Jeg har selv engang ejet en El Maya Strat som var rigtig god, faktisk på højde med min gamle japanske Aria Strat og for den sags skyld med en del af de "ægte" strat'er fra samme periode.

Så vidt jeg kan se ud fra en annonce i Den Blå Avis, har en ny ejer haft travlt med at fjerne Maya logoen på bassens hoved - for istedet at placere en Gibson logo.
- "How low can you go?"
Jeg monterede blandt andet den uoriginale håndstøtte over strengeholderen, så bassen er let at kende!