CORAL /DANELECTRO SITAR !!! Super Rare!

Bob Bartoli · Post by **Bob Bartoli** » 23 Dec 2010 4:43 pm

Just tossing this out to see if there is any intrest,talk about rare!!!

this is a 1966/67 original Coral Sitar, made by Danelectro. comes with original case, and is 9.9 condition, pretty much a bedroom guitar..email ..lucybobkat@yahoo.com..asking $2400.00 plus s $60.00 shipping in the lower 48..Pay Pal add 3%.. more pics to come

Jim Parker · Post by **Jim Parker** » 23 Dec 2010 7:27 pm

I remember drooling over this one when I was a teenager. More pics -- cause that's all I can do these days, is drool!

Chris Boyd · Post by **Chris Boyd** » 23 Dec 2010 8:15 pm

That's fantastic....those have the sound too..

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 24 Dec 2010 12:16 am

I bought one at dealer cost brand new, another one I let get away. So many great tunes were cut using that sound.

Bob Bartoli · Post by **Bob Bartoli** » 24 Dec 2010 2:22 am

Bo, how much were these in the 60's????Bob... Remember BJ Thomas, "I can't stop this feeling" 'Cry like a baby " the Boxtops,some songs that come to mind (an old mind)...Merry Christmas...

Denny Turner · Post by **Denny Turner** » 24 Dec 2010 5:33 am

Bob Bartoli wrote:Bo, how much were these in the 60's????

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$295 in 1969.
$265 in 1966/67 if I remember correctly.

Denny Turner · Post by **Denny Turner** » 24 Dec 2010 5:39 am

Denny Turner · Post by **Denny Turner** » 24 Dec 2010 6:13 am

I like real / tangible value. If I had the money to invest (wish on), I'd snap that right up in it's very rare condition. 1966/67 would have also been the first of the 3 model-years they were made. That model of Coral / Dano sitars are way undervalued in the collectors / investors market ....imho; and that guitar's condition is prime; although that market in dollars is mush right now with no end in sight and complex to project real value vs us dollars value projected to continue to deteriorate; FW my 2 cents are worth (not much).

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 24 Dec 2010 9:47 am

Bob,
The Dano/ Coral price list is MSRP..$330.00 For the guitar and case the dealer paid about $165.00 possibly less if the bill was paid within 30 days

I don't remember if they came factory direct or thru our local jobber

It would have sold discounted for about $230 plus sales tax

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 24 Dec 2010 9:58 am

Bob, the local hit makers in Philly .. TSOP & MFSB used this on a regular basis .. the first tune that comes to mind is The Stylistics "You Are Everything" It was the signature sound ... I'll ask Bobby Eli if he still has his..

Ron Simpson · Post by **Ron Simpson** » 24 Dec 2010 10:53 am

The Ventures put one to good use during their shows as well.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 24 Dec 2010 10:56 am

I had one way back when. Usually tuned it to an open C tuning for raga style playing. Sympathetic strings tuned to the chromatic scale. Thing was a blast!

Craig Stenseth · Post by **Craig Stenseth** » 24 Dec 2010 3:47 pm

I think the solo on "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" was done on one of these.

Denny Turner · Post by **Denny Turner** » 24 Dec 2010 6:16 pm

Lemon Pipers 'Green Tamborine'

Bob Bartoli · Post by **Bob Bartoli** » 24 Dec 2010 9:39 pm

wow!! lots of kool info being posted on this Jem... thanks guys.. just played it through my '68 Super Reverb..it relly has that retro sound... kool guitar!!

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 26 Dec 2010 5:31 pm

I checked in with Bobby Eli, THE guitar man on all the Philly Soul cuts that we all heard.. He did all the sitar tracks with a Coral thru a Kustom amp. He asked what you were asking for it.. I passed this thread along to him.

Bob Bartoli · Post by **Bob Bartoli** » 27 Dec 2010 4:49 am

Thanks Bo...I just figured out BJ Thomas's "Hooked on a feelig" I wanted to play that for 20 years on one of these, it sounds just like the record...lots of fun!!!

Chris Boyd · Post by **Chris Boyd** » 27 Dec 2010 5:32 am

If $$ wasn't so tight,I'd buy that in a heartbeat..such a cool sound...

Mike Harris · Post by **Mike Harris** » 27 Dec 2010 7:12 am

Joe South, "Games People Play"

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 27 Dec 2010 7:59 am

For a while every recording studio had one and it was a new sound that every guitar player could use.

Aside from the vintage value of an original Coral Electric Sitar..there are reproductions available Jerry Jones has a couple versions in the $1000 range and Rogue has one for about $350

John Borchard · Post by **John Borchard** » 27 Dec 2010 12:01 pm

Stevie Wonder -- "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
Steely Dan -- "Do It Again"

Great sound! Somebody buy this so we can bring it back again!

John Borchard

Bob Bartoli · Post by **Bob Bartoli** » 29 Dec 2010 6:36 am

Mike Harris · Post by **Mike Harris** » 29 Dec 2010 7:20 am

For that matter, if you do a search you can find an aftermarket bridge that fits Danelectros and converts to an electric sitar (without the sympathetic strings, of course.) I heard a guy play one in Dallas last January.

But--ain't nothing like the real thing, baby. I wish I'd grabbed one of these back when you could hardly give them away.

Lewis Goldsmith · Post by **Lewis Goldsmith** » 30 Dec 2010 3:50 pm

But just where are you gonna find a new set of those 13 drone strings?

Larry Chung · Post by **Larry Chung** » 30 Dec 2010 3:59 pm

Great guitar, Bob, someone should buy this and bring out their inner sitar.

Lest we forget... Spinal Tap!
Listen to What the Flower People Say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM

And, seriously, Pat Metheny has used a Coral Sitar for years with amazing results.

Great sound and history, too.
LC

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