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Preparations for the development started in 1975 when twelve guitars were to be finished for a music convention. In April of that year Hagström received from Ampeg the first electronic circuits to be put inside the body of the guitar. It could be switched between the traditional guitar sound and the
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nature, saying "It had very clear solo sounds, but the fact is that you couldn't use chords, which is an integral part of your music...you can only use it just for solos." He supposedly also claimed that this was very convenient, as you could play it using only your left hand, which allowed you to
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Each fret had to be connected to the electronics with its own wire running along inside the neck. Also each string had to be individually connected, and therefore isolated from the rest of the hardware, which meant that Hagström had to develop a new tailpiece/bridge system. The result very much
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Steiner
Synthesizers (formerly Steiner-Parker) gets there first -- as usual, with the introduction of the world's first "pocket" synthesizer, the Microcon. It makes the perfect accessory for your present equipment, ... It is also an ideal companion for a guitar slavedriver, Patch 2000, guitar
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The generated signal was sent to the Patch 2000 box by a special cable. The Patch 2000 box was equipped with a pitch pedal that raised the pitch in semitone increments up to one full octave, a glide pedal that controlled
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resembled the standard Hagström hardware, except that the centers of the saddles were made of a dense plastic, and instead of a single tailpiece the strings terminated at separate blocks set in 2 rows.
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Synthesizers were not provided by the manufacturer. With the Patch 2000 in mind, the
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