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Goya TS-5 / GG-5
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1962 catalog

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1964 catalog

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1965 catalog

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1966 catalog

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1968 catalog


Specifications:
12-string.
Non-cutaway.
Goliath size:
Body width: 400 mm.
Body length: 505 mm.
Body depth: 95/120 mm.
Fingerboard width: 51 mm.
Scale length: 630 mm.
Spruce top with undetermined bracing.
Flame maple back & sides.
4-ply bound top.
Single-bound back.
Mahogany bolt-on neck
with adjustable truss rod.
Metal Levin truss rod cover.
Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with centered pearl dot inlay.
Rosewood bridge.
Nickel plated strip tuners with large white rollers and white plastic buttons.
Natural finish.

Introduced: Circa 1962

Circa 1963:
Tuners with metal rollers.
Also available as Levin LTS 5.

Earliest known example: 135806 (Circa 1963)
216519 (Circa 1964)

Circa 1964:
Bass side fingerboard dot inlay.

268706 (Circa 1965)
275810 (1966)
323005 (1966)

Circa 1966:
Chrome plated tuners with metal buttons.

Circa 1969:
Belly pin bridge with six pins and six individual height adjustable plastic bridge saddles.

4124018 (1969)

Circa 1970:
Set neck.
Renamed GG-5.


Circa 1971:
14-fret neck.

1554 (Circa 1971) - (changed bridge, added pickguard)
1563 (Circa 1971)

Circa 1972:
Belly pin bridge with 12 pins and a straight bone saddle.

no number (Circa 1972)
Latest known example: 55085 (Circa 1972)