Inspecting and playing a one-owner Musima Eterna deLuxe - untouched for decades!

For those of you dying to know what the catalogue says: Here's a transcript!


Eterna De Luxe

An attractive instrument for the highest demands!

Asymmetrical modern design, painted black, polished to a high gloss. Body contoured for comfortable arm rest, stiletto neck with adjustable metal rod, fingerboard technically excellent, ferromagnetic string cover, 3 pickups with adjustable magnetic screws, they can be mixed with each other using quick select switches located next to the pickups, quick select for melody or rhythm, 1 quick select for melody or banjo effect, 1 volume control, two-way tremolo with ball bearings with adjustable bridge and string damper, all metal parts chrome-plated, 1 connection cable

Imo,,,.......hope they dont find out gibson didnt copy this😮😮imo

....imo,!,,,

Greetings from California 🇺🇸. Are you going to restore that guitar? I would.

That tremolo looks interesting. Recessed? That vibrato could b e Fenders answer to the JM Tremolo

Cool guitar bro

where to get that elgita shirt?!?!

Pearl ? Amp ?

Grown up poor
Can tell a Home Mase Pick
from a distance

When string pak paper was waxed

Sounds like a good guitar for Nirvana music.

Mounting point for the vibrato arm makes a lot of sense, being in the center of the rotating rod. I noticed the "F" fret, so it's like Brian May's Red Special with the vibrato and no locking nut, but still comes back in tune because of the lack of friction. The nut is simply a sting guide. Very cool instrument!

Diese Gitarren waren bis in die 80ger das "Beste" was die Staatlichen Gitarrenbauer auf den Markt werfen konnten. Leider nur auf Herticasterniveau. Spielte sich furchtbar und klang auch wie Pappe. Ich hatte selber so eine mit 2 Pickups. Die besch... Klampfe die ich je hatte. Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher das damit kein Profi gespielt hat. Schon garnicht in den 80gern wie Du vermutest. Die Teile wurden in den 60gern bis in die 70ger gebaut. Für 20 € würde ich mir die als Wandschmuck fürs Studio holen. Mehr ist das Ding nicht wert.Der Erstbesitzer hat sich mit Sicherheit auch was besseres geleistet. Auch wenn's zu Ostzeiten sehr teuer war sich was aus dem Westen zu kaufen.Oder man hat sich eine bei den einschlägigen Gitarrenbauern, zB. Seifert, gekauft. Witziger weise haben die in Markneukirchen ( Musima) ihren Lebensunterhalt verdienen müssen, haben aber privat wesntlich bessere Instrumente gebaut.

Cool find 😊

Höfner in East Germany was cutting fret slots through the binding too.

The missing jack would be of the DIN3 or DIN5 type

You got to go through it, if you had a '65-'73 radio or TV you would find a lot of bad leaking capacitors. The tone circuit is probably leaking and shorted by age. Cleaning and lube of tuners and tremolo parts can only do good. Clean up the electronics and get leaky capacitors swapped, it's ok and expected. Other wiring and pickup phase issues should be reviewed, with it replacement jack who knows? Somebody should be able to improve the action even if you have to shim the neck pocket to bring it up. All that's reversible if a collector didn't like it, put the old caps in a little bag and avoid stainless strings, just put modern strings on there and save the vintage sets for the collector interest. That said, it may still have less than modern playability but no reason you can't step it up to its best without affecting it's value. Good luck!

Nice guitar, flat wounds were just nice playing strings at the time.

I think this old guitar found a much needed friend, when it landed at your doorstep! It's not a piece of junk, but a real treasure, worthy of respect and love, feed it and heal its wounds, then see what it gives back, I'm sure you'll be surprised..

That trem is sic

I was doing a refreshment and overhaul on one of those. The owner, a icelandic artist, bought it for cheap on some european fleemarket. Very heavy, extra ordinary special neck profile. Rather weak pups and all "Plaste" (plastic) parts a bit brittle. This would have been the top-of-the-line model of this producer. Nice find! Needs attention, but cool piece!

Sounds great, born for the Blues! Danke...

Awesome find. What did it cost you? I remember those picks from the '70s here in Canada.

Started playing in 72 and had a piece of junk very cool story🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Maybe it was setup for slide

ACDC sounds great on it. It is a great sounding guitar.

My fucking fingers are bleeding just from imagining what the action must be on that thing....

I can't decide if that guitar is ugly or beautiful

Only in Germany they have so many spare strings :D

I like that it has a 0 fret! Brilliant, very underrated feature.

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interesting. keep up the good work.

Thanks for yet another great informative video! Looking forward to your next guitar discovery

Really interesting! I hope you do more videos on it!

...You knock on her door
She don't recognize your voice no more... great guitar and video!