Musical Instruments Review

Now, it is official. Fender has officially released the Elvis Costello Signature Jazzmaster, a guitar named after the respected singer-songwriter and musician par excellance. The new Costello guitar is modeled after the Fender guitar that Costello owned back in 1977.

The signature guitar is available in walnut finish in Nitrocellulose Lacquer for a price of $1,530. It comes with a classic strap and a deluxe brown hardshell case.

The Jazzmaster has undergone a lot of modifications over the last 30 years. However, it has managed to retain the best features of the guitar. It has an Alder body, Rosewood fretboard, Maple C-shaped neck, Vintage tremolo and vintage style machine heads. Of course it comes with a chrome hardware and 4-ply tortoise shell pickguard.

The looks of the Jackson MG Series DXMG Dinky Electric Guitar can already arouse curiosity. Wait till you hear that it also comes with EMG 81 and 85 humbuckers and your hooked.

It is available in six models/colors: Cobalt Blue Swirl, Transparent Black, Cobalt Blue, Satin Black, Black and Black Forest. All models comes with a strap and gig bag but the Cobalt Blue Swirl model is the most expensive at $799.95 followed by the Transparent Black which costs $749.95. The rest of the models are priced at $699.95 each.

This electric guitar has an alder body, a flame maple neck and a rosewood fingerboard. It boasts of a Jackson licensed Floyd Rose tremolo bridge and pearl piranha inlays.

If you want to blaze trials and a musician and find your genius then make sure you get a shot at the Korg TR61 Key Synthesizer Workstation.  This is a quality keyboard that boasts of the very feature that has made TRITON a standard all over the world and a favorite among reputable musicians—the Hyper Integrated sound engine.

This keyboard contains all the Korg known classics, a 64 MB ROM, portable SC card for storage, USB midi capabilities, user-friendly interface and the 16-track sequencer for which Korg is known for. 

It boasts of new waveforms that can produce realistic sounds much like a real electric piano, acoustic guiatr, string guitar, and even a stereo sampled piano.  It also has a full range of 518 drum samples that allows users to experiment using a broad selection.

With polyphonic arpeggiators that are powerful as well as unique composition tools,  the TR Music Workstation can afford any musician high impact playing and enriching performances.

For $999 plus a free padded bench, this keyboard is a real bargain!

If you believe in starting them young then the Ludwig LJR106 Junior Drum Kit is the best way to go.  Some kids already know what they want even when they are still very young but others need some motivation. If you see any musical inclination in your kid then the Ludwig LJR106 Junior Drum Kit is enough motivation that will encourage him to play the drums

The red hot Wine Red finish of the drum set is enough to encourage the fire of drum playing in any kid.  It comes complete with a hi-hat stand and throne, 10×16 inches bass drum with double tom holder, and cymbals (with cymbal stands), 5×10 and 5×8 inches toms with mount, 4×12 inches snare with strainer and 10c13 floor tom with legs—and will make the young drummer feel like he is in the big league. 

The best drummers in the world are playing Ludwig drums for a reason and one of them being the reputation Ludwig has built over 90 years as a manufacturer of quality drums in terms of aesthetics and sounds. 

If you want the young ones to start right, start them with the right equipment. And at $280, this drum set is a runaway winner.

The new Kurzweil PC3X keyboard is good news for synthesizer enthusiasts as this keyboard boasts of the VA-1 Virtual Analog Synthesizer.  This is a product of the manufacturer’s effort to improve the the keyboard’s felxibility and processing power.   

Aside from having the Triple Strike Grand Piano features,. it also boasts of hundreds of new sounds including drums, basses, synths and guitars depending on your own music style and preference. It has more than 250  orchestral programs as well as keyboard emulations.

However, what makes Kurzwell ahead of the competition is its ability to desing its own chips more popularly known as ASICs for all their instruments. By customizing their chips, Kurzwell promises its customers maximum audio performance on all their instruments.  Of course, a company that develops its own chips will have more expenses adn will spend more time for the production process.  But Kurzwell knows that with this knowledge, its clients are assured of sound quality that is rich and glitch-free.

If you want a musical instrument that is not only useful but one that also catches attention during gigs eseically among your fans then this Bass Guitar is the best choice.  The King Doublesbass Slap King Limited Edition Bass Guitar doe snot only have an eye catching ebony black color but it also glows in the dark. 

This made in China but painted in the United States Bass Guitar is reasonably priced at $2,879.99 considering how sturdy it is even when owned by a touring bassist. This is Road King’s limited edition bass guitar but it is by no means a beginner model.  It is a bit cheaper though and thats’ welcome news for every bassist in town.

It boasts of a maple neck that has been steel reinforced, a laminated wood body (6-ply) and and ebony fingerboard.  It looks tough so be scared because it is also a hard worker.

This glow in the dark Bass Guitar comes with a glow in the dark finish which is really amazing for those who want to keep fidgeting with their guitar even when outdoors or anywhere where there’s limited light available.