Chicks go wild (in my mind)
Goddamn I am playing this bass real fast
My mom didn’t like her, but Ms Friedman was totally the best teacher
(We don’t want) your war
Someday they will realize.
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Download fourteen pages of electric guitars and amplifiers from the Kay Instrument catalog circa 1968:
DOWNLOAD: Kay_Elec_Gtrs_Amps_1968
Models on offer include: Kay K400, K401, K402, K403, K404, K405, K406, and K407 K400 series “Professional” deluxe solidbody electric guitars w/ vibrato; K365 Apollo II guitar; K370 top-end “Artist” guitar, K355 Titan II; Kay K326, K327, and K328 Vanguard II guitars; K 310, 311, and 312 Value Leader guitars; Kay K318 and 319 Speed Demon guitars; Kay K561, 562m 563, K6530, K585, K625, K6262, K659, K651, K682, and K683 hollowbody electric guitars; K5951, K5952, K 5921, K5922, K5923, K5924, K5925, K5926, K5935, K5917, K5918, and K5919 electric bass guitars; and a whole slew of forgettable solid-state amplifiers.
Kay Instruments (by this point, a division of the Seeburg Jukebox company) was, along with Harmony, one of the Chicagoland giants of mass-manufacture of musical instruments in America throughout much of the twentieth century. Their guitars tended to by a little flashier and a little worse-playing than those made by Harmony, but there are of course some notable exceptions. The late-60’s Kays in this catalog are some of the last American-built Kay-branded instruments to be sold, and they are not among the more collectible of the Kay oeuvre (for that, see for example the Kay Jazz II). Many of the instruments in this catalog are pretty common, the exceptions being the higher-priced 400 series and the kinda outrageously expensive K370. Anyone out there ever owned one of these?
8 replies on “Kay Electric Guitars c. 1968”
I am researching a kay banjo . The decal on it is just like the one on the instuments above except this banjo does not have “kay” written underneath the ”K” logo. Can you tell me if or not this banjo is american made? Also does this give any ideal of what year this banjo was made?
I have a vintage Kay guitar and I would like to get it Up to scratch and fix the cover off the batterey cover and make it all New again. On the back it has stickers that say kav les Paul vintage PA2886 160313 E. (BB1400ILMO47Z LMOOO9) ALSO IT HAS (CPLPO35000000000) AND ANOTHER STICKER HAS WO.20980 MADE IN KOREA UP FRONT 101 CHEPSTOW RD MAINDEE NEWPORT GWENT TEL 0633856443. I have written all the details off the guitar so you could give me a price to insure my birthday instrument. Please could you get in touch either by phone or email to tell me where to get a battery cover for the back and a price I should insure it for as my guitar is my life and wouldn’t want to lose it 🙂 yours hopefully nix Catchpole.
I am trying to find out what a model number 5925 Kay electric bass might be worth.
check ebay and gbase dot com.
ru selling it?
Most of these things take a LOT of work to be playable.
I have a 1968 K407. Got it as a gift, new, in 68. It was a lot of fun back in the day and still sounds and plays great
I’ve owned my Kay 5919 bass since about 1979. Foolishly neglected it for decades but got it back together a few years ago. Managed to carefully remove paint that I had sprayed it with (spent about 12-15 hours undoing what my stupid teenage self did) and got down to the original paint underneath that looks surprisingly good again. Had a new rosewood bridge made for it and a very good setup and it plays and sounds really nice. The last of the American made Kays, I’ve only seen maybe four others over the years on the internet for sale and never seen another in person besides my own. Being a budget bass probably many got destroyed over the years but I have no idea how many were actually produced. There is just so little info on these instruments that it’s really nice to see anything at all about them, learn the model number, the original price, and see the other colors that they came in… very cool thanks!