Casio DG-10

I believe this guitar was made in about 1987, apparently with only about 15,000 being made. It has a bunch of on board Synth-Patterns similar to those found on 80s Casio Keyboards and the Yamaha Portasound series of 1984-1987. The body as previously noted is plastic all-over with drum machine controls on the front of the body underneath the right hand.

The sound of this thing really suits my style of music. For all you No-Wavers out there and Synth Punk Junkies this thing will really fill the void. It has changed alot playing live and has added another dimension to the mix of Keyboards and Live Drums already available for my band. You can Slide up and down the fretboard for some expression and to make the sound bend press 3 frets at a time and it will bend along them. Very cool indeed.

The guitar is pretty well set up although the strings make me nervous. CAN YOU REPLACE THESE? I havn't broken any yet but dread the day. (If anyone knows if these can be replaced PLEASE email me!)
The thing feels like playing a space ship and is always a crowd wower if you make abit of fun out of it and amp it up to FX, bloody brilliant.

Im not sure how reliable - if the strings are replaceable then very, if not then i am scared to death. I love this syntar so much - it really is a golden wonder and if you find one BUY BUY BUY.

CASIO REALLY ARE CRAP! nuff said, bunch of wankers.

I have been playing Keyboards for 15 years and guitar for 6 years. This thing is a godsend to that situation - really glad to have it. I love its sound, its silly look and the way you have to play it like your a robot. This thing rules - if it was stolen i would most likely cry, or dress my other guitar up in a cardboard shape of it to morn the loss. PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE STRINGS!!! cheers!

Great retro futuristic styling - straight out of a Buck Rogers episode from the early 80s, feels quite solid. You can adjust the tension of the strings using an allen key.

Cool funky sounds especially the Clav and electric guitar 2, the sampled drums have that lo-fi 80s sound to them but they are quite solid and worth sampling. Sounds great thru some fx like wah, distortion and phaser

Quite a playable action but nothing exceptional, sustain can be too long on some sounds but there is a mute button to counter this.

Quite gig-able, seems quite solid if a little heavy.

Don't know about customer support.

All in all a great piece, I would think that these will be highly sought after in the future, if you see one for sale buy it you won't regret it.

It is black plastic and cheap looking but a lot of fun. I built one of these myself in the early 80's out of a cheap guitar but it never lived up to my hopes. When I saw this at a garage sale, I had to have it.

While the nylon strings don't need tuning per se, it does help to keep the tension up to avoid too sloppy action, especially on the 2 outer strings.

Funky rhinestone cowboy, disco duck sounds. Combine with external sound boxes and you can get some pretty funky Las Vegas "Dave Bunker Show" (inventor of the touch guitar---even before Emit Chapman's STICK) sounds!

I like the glocken run through an external amp with a little sustain and chorus.

You have to get used to the action. It is NOT like playing a guitar and the strings are a little too close in myu opinion.

The internal batteries make it heavier than it needs to be: 6 size D's!!!

It is a novelty and not supported. If your gig depended on it and it broke, GOOD LUCK!!!!

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This is a fun instrument and I would miss it if it got stolen or crapped out. If you see one for sale, snag it!

This is a mid 80s synth guitar from Japan. Completely made of plastic, requiring 6 D batteries. There are controls for Guitar sounds and background 'drum machine' noise. It doesn't tune, as it has six nylon strings (like the high E on a classical) that dictate the sounds. Unlike the DG 20, this synth has no MIDI output. Good features for what I need this for.

Although I would not say that this suits my sound, I really enjoy using this. You can use an amp, or just listen through the speaker included in the guitar. The weird noises are a campy blast! I love to sit around and play this in front of people, it really gets a reaction. The sounds are like what you would hear from a Casio Keyboard.

The DG 10 I purchased is in mint condition, hardly touched. Very nice, and a bargain at that! Everything works (so far) and I have been generally very pleased.

If you are gutsy enough to play this live, I say go for it. It has good strap buttons, surprisingly, and sounds great through my
Bassman ?! If the sounds work for your style, this synth will hold up. I give it a nine only because the plastic could crack.

Never dealt, but hear that they will send a copy of the manual.

I have been playing a long time, and have never owned any MIDI style equipment. This is a nice entry level instrument for those wanting to dabble in electronic guitar sounds, without the hefty price.

I figured i would put this thing up as a synth too, though it plays like a guitar. This is the most eccentric synth instrument i have ever seen in my life, It looks and plays like a guitar, but sounds like a synthesizer (Note: i did not say it sounds like a keyboard). As long as you have knowledge of the fingerboard and frets and you know how to push blatently marked buttons, this instrument will not be that hard. The only thing that sucks is the manual I ordered for it, that Xeroxe'd and Stapled piece of shit.

If it was a guitar it would have 20 frets, that's all i know about how many notes it can play. It has 12 different sounds (Acoustic Guitar 1, Acoustic Guitar 2, Electric Guitar, Dist Electric Guitar, Shamsien, trumpet, and Church organ just to name a few), and it has a built in drum machine with 12 diffrent beat patterens. Seperate volumes for the sounds and drum machine, a #/b knob on the back for tuning down or up in smaller incriments, transpose feature, reverb, solo switch (chooses wheather the Guitar/synth will play chords or not), an ac adapter jack, a MONO heaphone jack, and it can run off of 6 D cell batteries.

The reason I bought this instrument is that it sounds nothing like the sounds it has listed on the buttons. it actually sonds like the tones used on Atari, Sega, and Nintendo games. Great if you like to play "Super Mario Brothers", "Final fantsasy", "Dragon Warrior" or other videogame themes and music so you can play stuff a bunch of fifteen year old's at school will all reconize. It makes somewhat amount of noise plugged into an amp.

i have no choice, they are hard to find, I can't easily find a backup. But it's pretty reliable until you kill it doing something stupid, like using a 9 volt battery through the ac adapter jack and blowing up a few protection resistors. I hate myself almost for doing that.

Casio's customer support sucks. They don't stand by the products they sell. they cranked out like 15,000 of these things and they don't even have the schematics for it on file. When i broke it i had to make a million phone calls just to find a fucking manual which didn't include all the information I needed and was just a Xeroxed piece of crap with a staple in the corner like a school worksheet packet.

As long as you don;t do anything retarded with this thing it is a piece of art worth getting. I wish It had a whammy bar or a pitch bend wheel on it. I wish Casio would make these again, maybye with a few more sounds and a pitch bend wheel for dive bombs and swoops and shit I can do with my electric guitars. If it were stolen i would lose all sanity, I love this piece of plastic. anybody who knows anything about this Synth/guitar instrument (How many were made, What other models were made, is there anything similar like it) please E-Mail me.

This is the weirdest guitar I have ever seen in my life. The neck is plastic with a rubber fingerboard, 20 rubber frets, plastic body, the pickups are inside of the guitar somewhere in the bridge, it has an internal amp, 32 built in effects, a built in drum machine, uses nylon strings (All the same gauge) of which you don't have to tune, has a pitch adjustment on bottom, volume for rhythym drum machine, volume for the guitar itself, and it runs on 6 D cell batteries from its internal amp.

this is just my screw around guitar. The sounds it has are cool like the Shamsien which sounds like the tone I heard for love synth songs in the 1980's, the distorted guitar sounds like a Sega Game, the trumpet sound had uncontrollible sustain, and the drum machine sounds lonley without a bassline to go with it. Put fuzz on it and it sounds even more weird, and when things arent oddball enough, add chorus.

The action is high but who cares, the nylon strings are almost non exsisten as far as tension goes. You cant even adjust the action. It seems pretty well made.

The only thing that kills this guitar is doing something stupid like running a nine volt battery through the ac adapter jack.

These people don't stand by their past products at all. I have had it in for repairs now and it really gets me that Casio does not have a Schematic for the electronics much less any good tech support. Casio people suck.

This thing kicks ass, whatever it is. The ad campaighn for this thing should have been "The guitar that thinks it's a Synthesizer". This is a very rare item and If I lost it, people would haver to put me into a straightjacket.