Z Model - "zzz"

[Nando Vallart]

Hello!
I remember a while there was a topic about which guitar was this Z body warmoth does... The problem is: on the "search" tool, each word need to have 2 word to it be able to search it....... So... think you can understand the topic title

Anybody remember which guitar had this Z design?
cheers!

 

[alterbridgefan]

Zeta bass or something of the sort, right?

 

[Patriot54]

Info about those guitars is hard to find, but the company was Zeta Systems and from what I can find out they made a a bass with that body style called the Prism and a guitar called the Mirror. They were MIDI controllers - I'm not sure if they're still around under a different name now.

The History of Guitar Synthesizers
"A few synths cropped up between 1979 and 1980, including Musiconics’ MCI B-35-S (sort of a Guitorgan with filters), HEAR’s Zetaphon Mark II (from the company that eventually became known as Zeta Systems, with killer hexaphonic fuzz and filtering, costing $4,500 in 1980)..."
http://www.mulhern.com/articles/musician_0595_guitarsynths.htm

Also found this article from 1993 about guitars made in Sweden using Warmoth parts and they did a series of synth guitars/basses based on the Zetas.
http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/guyguitars/review.html
http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/guyguitars/lens.html