| Cheesy musical instruments |
| Site |
Description |
Language |
| Lordbizarre.com |
Lordbizarre's electric online guitar and amp museum - parental advisory! |
English |
| Junk Guitars |
A similar site dedicated to cheesy Harmony, Teisco and other guitars. Maintained by the man who invented the name for our site. |
English |
| Jolana |
A Czech site about Jolana. Wish I could read Czech! Still the pictures alone are priceless. |
Czech |
| Russian Keyboards |
A very good site about Soviet keyboards, synths and other electronic stuff. |
English/Russian |
| Soviet Guitars |
Soviet Guitars (previously Gudok) - Russian collectors of Soviet guitars. The best site on the subject - if you read Russian. |
Russian |
| Fetish guitars |
Well-designed site about Italian and other European vintage guitars. |
English/Italiano |
| Mine Gitarer |
A private guitar collection, featuring some vintage cheese. |
German |
| Egmond |
Dutch made Egmond Guitars |
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| sovietguitar |
A site about Soviet guitars |
Russian |
| wietsesguitars.nl |
A private guitar collection |
Dutch |
| Vermona keyboards |
Another communist brand from Democratic Germany. |
Deutch/English |
| Musical instruments' manufacturers and sale |
| Site |
Description |
Language |
| Studio 1525 |
Online guitar shop that used to sell Soviet guitars in USA |
English |
| LeL |
Russian company still making those cheesy stompboxes! |
Russian |
| ebay.de |
Just type your search (like "Russian/Czech guitar") and get dozens of cheesy instruments. This is the plase where cheesy guitars are being sold. |
English |
| Jolana |
Jolana company rises from the ashes and makes some more guitars, although no reference to its' heroic past is present in its' current production line (remark '2006: Jolana returned to the ashes, the company is not active again). |
Czech |
| More related sites |
| Site |
Description |
Language |
| Gudok |
An online ezine made by Russian virtuoso Violet Ponosov, covering wide range of guitar-related topics. Featuring sound samples of Soviet guitars. Upgraded to sovietguitars.com in 2006. |
Russian |
| Raduga |
A Soviet school band "Raduga" (Rainbow) that started in the seventies and still plays! If you don't read Russian you can still check out the pictures of Russian schoolboys playing home-made electrics.
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Russian |
| Czech guitars |
Information about Guitar production in Czechoslovakia |
Czech |
| Kolekcja |
Online collection of guitars, the collector's name is Krzysztof Wawer, who lives in Wroclaw. The page is in Polish but there's almost no text. |
Polish |
| Palka.com |
Dusan Palka comes from Czechoslovakia and currently lives in USA. He's got a collection of rare vintage guitars you can see on his site (incl. Futurama/Gracioso). |
English |
| History of Jolana company |
Guitar production in Czechoslovakia. The article written by Dusan Palka (see the link above). |
English |
| guitars.ru |
The best Russian guitar portal, featuring (among the rest) different materials and pictures of Soviet, Czech and DDR-made instruments, as well as some naked girls with guitars. |
Russian |
| Kniha |
Information about Guitar production in Czechoslovakia |
Czech |
| History of Jolana company |
Information about guitar production in Czechoslovakia. |
Czech |
| Futurama story |
A Hofner tribute site also featuring a large section about Futurama/Gracioso guitar. |
English |
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