The wide fine-tune bridge was very popular in the early 1980's, and provides easy, stable intonation. Each tone pot is push/pull, yielding coil tapping on one and phase reversal on the other. The guitar has a master volume with individual tone controls for each pickup. Like many other Japanese guitars of this time, the electronics are designed to give you a great deal of tonal flexibility.
Standing, it gives you a great image, and if you like to play sitting down, the moon shape cradles nicely in your lap. This is a great-playing, comfortable guitar, extremely well-made, with premium materials. This was when Gibson and other companies were producing similar metallic sunburst guitars. The tell-tale blue/silver burst finish clearly dates it to that time. The MS-700 was produced from December of 1982 through April 1983. Many MoonSault models were produced after 1975. Once you see one, you never forget it and they play great too. It's one of the more unique guitar shapes ever created! This is the ULTIMATE ART GUITAR and from its introduction the MOONSAULT became a benchmark for guitar styling. As far as I know, no significant attempt was ever made to market MoonSaults in the U.S. The MoonSault became one of the most popular models in Japan marketed by Kawai. I don't own this guitar, but I've written about the Moonsault a few times in other postings so I thought I'd include some information and pictures of one.
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