удачи comrade

[Newfoundfreedom]

29 minutes ago, probonopublico said:

You can read the Cyrillic, well if you know what it means.  

The main body of the text says "Electrogitara Tonika" or Tonika (Tonic) electric guitar. The really interesting bit is under the serial number where it gives the price. A whopping 145 Rubles, at the current exchange rate that's about £1.66. 😂

Edited December 22, 2018 by Newfoundfreedom

[Chiliwailer]

25 minutes ago, probonopublico said:

Sadly it would cost me twice as much (missus gets an equal amount).  A ray is on my shopping list but redundancy looms.  

Sorry to hear that pal, wishing you both all the best. 

[Newfoundfreedom]

Oh and it's model number EGB - 805 should you need any spares. 😋

[probonopublico]

Phaser well and truly earned 

[Japhet]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Now I can't unsee any of that.

[ahpook]

In West, you play bass guitar.
In Soviet Russia, bass plays you !

[Geek99]

23 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

Udachi.

It translates from Russian as something like good luck. 

However here in Bulgaria it would mean something closer to "hit it", which may be more appropriate. 

I found giggle translate said it translated “laughably bad”

[Happy Jack]

On 22/12/2018 at 11:51, Newfoundfreedom said:

The main body of the text says "Electrogitara Tonika" or Tonika (Tonic) electric guitar. The really interesting bit is under the serial number where it gives the price. A whopping 145 Rubles, at the current exchange rate that's about £1.66. 😂

Damn! I just knew that I'd paid over the odds for this ...

 

[EssentialTension]

On 21/12/2018 at 21:35, Newfoundfreedom said:

.. here in Bulgaria ...

I was very fortunate to visit Bulgaria a few weeks ago. Three days in Plovdiv and two in Sofia. Very nice, great food, drink, and culture ... and better looking than that bass.

[EssentialTension]

And (if my Russian is at all reliable, which it may not be, because I studied it for only six months in 1969) the bass guitar was built in the Sverdlovsk factory of the Ural Musical Instrument company.

[Silvia Bluejay]

4 minutes ago, EssentialTension said:

And (if my Russian is at all reliable, which it may not be, because I studied it for only six months in 1969) the bass guitar was built in the Sverdlovsk factory of the Ural Musical Instrument company.

Ha! Thanks for that. I thought I read "Ural" in double quotes on that plate. (Just spotting a few random words because I can read Greek - I read no Russian at all, I'm afraid.)

[Happy Jack]

29 minutes ago, EssentialTension said:

... the bass guitar was built in the Sverdlovsk factory ...

For some reason I had always assumed that Sverdlovsk was the name of a city. Quite surprised to find that it's an administrative region instead.

[EssentialTension]

58 minutes ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

... I can read Greek - I read no Russian at all, I'm afraid.)

I'm better at Greek than Russian but I wouldn't strictly go as far as to say I can actually read it.

[EssentialTension]

38 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

For some reason I had always assumed that Sverdlovsk was the name of a city. Quite surprised to find that it's an administrative region instead.

According to Wikipedia, the city of Yekaterinburg was called Sverdlovsk from 1924 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The region/oblast is still called Sverdlovsk. So your assumption was not incorrect.