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Mulla on tollanen normipuoleinen ja nätti ja hyvin soipa peli on. Hintaluokka soitinkulmassa on oikea - ehkä jopa alhaisempi kuin oikeakätisten. Maksoin omastani kovan kotelon kanssa 550€.
 
Netistä olen löytänyt aiemmin mainittujen lisäksi mm. seuraavaia kommentteja:
 
"the first one I got ... and the one I will die with - simply the best guitar I ever played "
 
"I'm a demented Scot living in Germany and the first electric guitar I bought was me beloved Wessie 250. I have often heard people generally laugh when I talk about it "Cheap'n'cheerful, weren't they?" But it's nice to watch their faces fade into grudging admiration when they actually play the damn thing! I lent it to someone who must have dropped it hard, because he cracked the neck. I then took it to a guitar shop in South England (I did a hell of a lot of travelling before)and the guy told me it wasn't worth fixing. It would cost 150 pounds to repair(I bought it second hand for 165 pounds) and I could buy a brand new Fender Squire for the same price. OK I'm going back a few years! I told him I didn't want another guitar, I wanted mine back again! He couldn't understand why, but, what the hell, money was money. When it came back from repair and he actually plaid it to check it, he looked at me and said "Yeah, you were right.""
 
"I own 30 Westones but let's face it, my favourite is my old Prestige 250 : it was the first one I purchased, in 1988 (graduation gift). This guitar is the BEST guitar in the world (for me...). Let me tell you the whole story. I started playing the guitar when I was 9. It was a old classical guitar with three strings missing so I used it as a "bass". Then, my dear aunt lent me her guitar and this time, it had all the strings. I started to play Pink Floyd, Beatles, Led Zep music and I was longing for an electric guitar and a big amp to smash everybody's ears. I was 17 when my mum gave me my first electric guitar, the one and only WESTONE Prestige 250 (about $380). I didn't realize that I was owning a great guitar cause my first amp was a kind of joke (when I listen to my early recordings, I ask myself how I bared this awful sound). My dream was to get a "milestone" such as a Stratocaster, a SG or a Les Paul. But when I bought a good amp (a Marshall one of course), I realized that my Westone wasn't a "cheap" axe and that it was sounding better and better years after years (like french wine). Then I had the opportunity to play all the formentioned great guitars cause I was working in a instruments store in the summer. And I got to admit that my Prestige was sounding better to me, and it's not a matter of nostalgia cause it was my first one : no ... I never played a guitar that beats my Westone. From this point, I asked myself if the other Westones were as good as my Prestige. So I began a kind of quest and it took me 4 years to find another Westone. Actually, I found two (a Concord II and a Concord H II ... see the pics) in a little pawn shop. And that was the revelation : WESTONE IS THE BEST ... for me, that means that it's my favourite brand. God bless the Internet that allows me to get more and more guitars cause in France, Westones are pretty rare. Now I got 30 Westones but my very first Prestige is still in the top of my list. Now I got a message for you, folks : if you got the luck to get near a Prestige 250, buy it now ... or stole it ... but do anything to get it ... (am I right Frank ?) and please, don't change anything especially the pick-ups, let it sound natural. Long live Westone and God bless all the people who saw the light likeme playing these wonderful guitars."
 
Ja vastauksena tähän:
"I would have to agree with Monsieur DUPRAZ about the Prestige 250. Although I wouldn't recommend that you steal one especially since I know of the whereabouts of only 4 of them, and one of them is mine and I would like to keep it that way!). I would also say that the guitars are better with the original pickups. My first Westone is a Prestige 150, and it is the only one that I have ever seen (picture or realtime). It is just as sweet as the 250, although in a little bit better cosmetic condition. The 250 was handled a little rougher, but still looks pretty nice from a distance. But the 250 does play great and sound great and I find that it is the one that I generally
pick up instead of the 150."
 
Että sellaista...
 
Omat kokemukset kitarasta ovat hyviä. Säädöt ovat monipuoliset. Tonepotikat ovat ovelat, joissa 0-kohta on ikään kuin keskellä ja muutokset tapahtuvat siitä jompaan kumpaan suuntaa (vertaa esim. kotistereot). Kitara on painava, se täytyy myöntää, mutta puu soi todella hyvin.
 
Tarkempia speksejä tuolta jo ratholesta:
http://www.therathole.org/guitars/m … logs/83/83_westone_page_11.jpg.html
 
Mutta vastaus kysymykseen lienee jo selvä.
 
OSTA HETI SE KITARA. Olisin sen jo itse ostanut, jollei se olisi minulle väärän kätinen.
 
Jos on vielä jotain, jota haluat kysyä, älä epäröi.
 
EDIT:
 
Historiaa lyhyesti:
 
Westonea tehtiin Matsumokun tehtaalla Japanissa (valmisti mm. Aria, Fenderin Lyle, Electra, Vox, Univox, Vantage, Epiphone) kahdeksankytluvun loppupuolelle asti. Westone on oikeastaan jatke Electralle lisättynä omalla. Sitten tuli maanjäristys tai tulipalo tai jotain (tieto riippuu lähteestä). Westonen valmistus siirtyi Koreaan hetkeksi, mutta laatu laski ja tuotanto hiipui. 90-luvulla merkki ostettiin saksaan ja sitten Englantilainen Modulus graffite (tai jotain sinne päin) teki pienen erän nostalgia-westoneita vanhaan tyyliin (taitaa olla Made In UK). Nyttemin on ilmaantunut uusia Westoneita, mutta ne ovat kopioita olemassaolevista malleista (LP, Mockinbird, V, ym.) Tehty missälie ja laatu ei liene kovin korkea (tietoa tästä ei ole.
 
Nimenomaan nuo Made in Japan Matsumoku-Westonet ovat "kuuluisia" siitä, että ovat kestäviä, laadukkaita, mutta halpoja.