This is big! We're celebrating our 66th anniversary by having a huge clearance sale on our inventory of band and orchestra instruments. We occasionally have these sales and we thought our anniversary was an appropriate occasion for just such a sale.

If you are thinking of upgrading your instrument, this is a particularly good sale. You'll find exceptional savings on all of our band and orchestra instruments, with lots prices lower than we've ever offered before. In fact, most of our sale prices are below the manufacturer's minimum advertised prices. The list of sale items is too long to include here -- and the sales prices are too low for us to advertise on the Internet -- so you'll have to come in to see our low prices in person.

In addition to normal Stratocaster pickups, this model comes with divided pickup that realizes new possibilities for guitar. This pickup transmits signals from each string individually, and is capable of accurately capturing performance information for each individual string. In addition to capturing the performance techniques and nuances characteristic of guitars, such as bending, vibrato, and hammering, the divided pickup also enables an entirely new level of performance through COSM. From traditional guitar sounds to the unimagined the VG comes with five different modes: Normal Stratocaster, Modeled Stratocaster, Telecaster, Humbucking Pickups, and Acoustic. With its five-way switch, you can create tonal variations with different pickup combinations from any of these modes. In addition, the VG enables tonal options that are not available on traditional electric guitars, including Wide Range (which gives you a fat tone while maintaining the wide range of single coil pickups) and Bright Humbucker (that delivers highs that cut through while maintaining the rich mids and lows hat are characteristic of humbuckers). You can also enjoy the sounds of Jazz Guitar and Electric Sitar in acoustic mode, all from a single guitar!

The VG’s Tuning function lets you instantly retune to alternative tunings such as Drop D, Open G, D modal, and Baritone at the turn of a knob. You can switch to a variety of alternative tunings without touching the tuning pegs or switching to another guitar, keeping your string tensions unchanged. A 12-string guitar mode is also provided, which you can use with both acoustic and electric guitar sounds.

The VG is as easy to use as a regular electric guitar. After you plug in your guitar cable, all you have to do to set your tone is turn the Mode and Tuning knobs, and set the five-way switch. It’s fast and friendly to use yet feature-filled and powerful.

Two special nobs control the mode and tuning. Here are the settings:

MODE knob: 5 types
N: Normal (non-modeling mode)
S: Modeled Stratocaster
T: Modeled Telecaster
H: Modeled Humbucking Pickups
A: Modeled Acoustic guitar

TUNING knob: 6 types
N: Normal tuning
D: Drop D
G: Open G
d: D Modal
B: Baritone
12: 12-string guitar

MSRP: $1,779.00
Sale price: $1,298.85