Original Coral Sitars are pretty pricey in the vintage market and quite collectable for their uniqueness and history. The Coral Sitar has been used on countless hits.
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In 1967, after MCA purchased Danelectro, the Vincent Bell Coral Sitar was released to the world. The Beatles Norwegian Wood and the Stones Paint It Black first made many westerners hear what a sitar can add to popular music.
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We can thank George Harrison and the Beatles plus Brain Jones and the Rolling Stones for starting the “raga-rock” sound when they played real acoustic sitars on their early 1960s recordings. It utilizes a “buzz” bridge that was innovated to give its signature sound on the regular 6-strings that are tuned standard (or drop-D). Vinny Bell wanted an instrument that could sound like a sitar that could be used in pop music and played by any guitar player. The first electric Sitar was meant to imitate a real acoustic sitar that is extremely hard to learn to play. Jerry Jones built several versions of the electric sitar that was originally an invention of studio guitarist, Vincent Bell who worked closely with Nathan Daniel at Danelectro. The Jerry Jones instruments are a step above the Danelectro instruments in quality and are have now become quite collectable. As of April 2011, Jerry Jones retired and closed down his Nashville factory. In 1991, Jerry Jones even visited the Nathan Daniel founder of Danelectro, who was living in Hawaii building sail boats at the time. From that point, Jerry began building high quality reproductions of the original Danelectro designs. Early Danelectro guitars were made in New Jersey. He liked the unpretentious simplicity of the Nathan Daniel’s Danelectro instruments. After some Danelectro guitars came in for repair, Jerry started thinking that the Danelectro guitar was what he would build for himself. Jerry Jones built quality guitars in Nashville, Tennessee since the 1980s. Many guitarists have never seen an electric sitar in the flesh. It has a few upgrades including the pickups, Callaham bridge, and vintage celluloid inlays, although in stock form its still a killer guitar that probably plays better than most original vintage examples out there.Jerry Jones Electric Sitars are unusual instruments and bit rare. I was lucky and snagged mine on eBay for $1475, probably because the ended at an odd time (it was like 7:30 am).
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From what I've seen, $1700-$1800 seems to be the going rate for a used one in excellent condition. They're great sounding and playing guitars. My '06 and '07 both had Kluson tuners, although I know that some of the CS SGs had factory Grovers. The neck profile is a '60s profile that's thinner than the typical R9 Les Paul but it still has some meat to it, its not at all like the pencil-thin '60s neck of the Les Paul Classic. I had an '06 which I sold about five years ago to raise funds for a Les Paul, then I missed the SG so much that I bought another (this one an '07). The Historic/VOS '62 SGs are great guitars. Also, at least some of the GC models (if not all) had Nashville bridges rather than ABRs.
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I believe that the Guitar Center models were identified as '61 reissues and had a regular USA style 8 digit number. The first two digits indicate the year and the last digit is a 2 as Summa indicated.
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The serial number for the VOS model would be a 6 digit embossed number and there would not be a "Made in USA" marking. Based on the photos and your description, I think you're looking at a Custom Shop Historic/VOS '62 SG, not a Gibson USA SG Standard model.