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The ELECTRA MPC are certainly part IMHO of the best Les Paul that Matsumoku ever made. They were designed by SLM (St. Louis Music in Missouri) in the early 1970s in collaboration with professional musicians of the time, such as Peter FRAMPTON, Jeff LYNN (Electric Light Orchestra), Jeff BASXTER (Doobie Brothers) …
If SLM had more traditional LP copies in its catalog, the revolution comes from these famous MPC. Here it is an X-320 but a MPC series was available.
Released in the early 1976 (the production stopped in 1981) and only for the US market, the MPC guitars have several features:
- Magnaflux pickups with high output levels, super-Magnaflux on even more upscale models like the X-350.
- The Tone Spectrum Circuitry allowing to activate the pickups in 5 different combinations.
- An accessible module cavity on the back of the guitar in which we can introduce up to two effect modules (out of the 12 existing) with a “on / off” switch and a knob to adjust the effect.
Solid mahogany one-piece top, same for the body, mahogany set-neck, ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl inlay.
This X-320 MPC is one of the very first models with the original headstock design; in the early 1977, Electra started to use the Wave-design for the headstock.
Model: X-320 MPC
Year: 1976
Serial: 17468
Body: Mahogany, 1 pc top
Neck: Mahogany set-neck
Fretboard: Ebony
Pickups: Magnaflux x2 (Maxon)
Tuners: Grover
Controls: 1 switch for each module, 1 pot for each effect. 1 Vol. + 1 Tone + 1 pot to activate the pickups in 5 different combinations.
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I want my guitar back!!!????????????????????????
I own one of the very early prototypes, built at the Kasuga Factory , open book, no logo, no numbers, from before production was started. Hangs with the rest of the MIJ kids in my collection.
Please show it to me ????, I’m desperate
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Where can one get parts for these nowadays?