Is it still a guitar?!? 😱 Rare CASIO DG-20

Short demo of a rare CASIO DG-20 MIDI guitar synthesizer from 1987. The playability of the instrument is pretty terrible but the tracking is incredibly fast even by today's standards.

[medslk]

i didn't think u were playing untill i saw ur hands moving man that voice is magical took me back

[jimmydavismusic]

Man, great playing! It’s all in the hands

[tomasbouda]

Short demo of a rare CASIO DG-20 MIDI guitar synthesizer from 1987. The playability of the instrument is pretty terrible, but the tracking is incredibly fast even by today's standards.

[twalsh]

Considering how difficult this thing is to play well, def thumbs up! haha

[Jrodrulz]

Insane solo! Just found out these even existed, but good to hear they sound great but aren’t great to play lol

[korbenward]

Yo that Casio sounds badass and smooth! And what is this backing track you’re playing over?? It sounds great!

[molotulo]

Do you hook it up thru midi to keyboards? I run mine into my midi patch bay snd run 5 keyboards with it. The switch my the midi jack makes it so either you can play all strings on a multiple midi input instruments or run different sounds on each stringn I run two yamaha keyboards, my moog Matriarch, and my Roland FA06 work station so each string can control all sixteen tracks on all or any of the 6 strings.

[mprotos]

How this genre (style) of music is called ?

[JackAkaJCK]

is that technically the first headless guitar ?

[molotulo]

Ita midi instrument that looks like a guitar, but it isn't really a guitar. You should actually do a video with the actual sound. I call them Nintendo sounds. It does have an amplifier and a speaker built in. It has both midi output and sound out ut so i run it into my Boss Me-80 multiple effect pedal. It doesn't sound anything like in this video. I did a great video yesterday actually showing how it works running midi output. Sorry, but my video is bet.