New model – Midsize acoustic guitar

La chitarra Archtop e i suoi segreti: una conferenza
04/09/2024
La chitarra Archtop e i suoi segreti: una conferenza
04/09/2024

This is my personal Midsize model, featuring a 38 cm/14,8″ dimension (measured at lower bout), with a slimmer waist and a 10,5 cm/4″ ribs depth.
Its size is comfortable and easy to play, but in the meantime it warrants a deep, full sound. The greater harmonic content is also gaind by my personal interpretation of a double-X bracing and a careful work of thicknessing, recurving and tap-tuning the instrument. Also, the triple-X back bracing is developed to work in concordance with the vibrations of the top, allowing a greater tonal response, increased projection and better definition.
I personally build all of my guitars in their entirety, in order to give organicity and identity. I hand build them in my workshop in northern Italy.
The material is hand-picked and carefully matched, to have the best possible coupling.

It is presented here in two versions, the “Cosmic Hunt” and the “Musa”.

The Cosmic Hunt is the oldest myth known in human history, and dates around 20,000 years ago. It is the common progenitor of the vast majority of later myths found in human history. It usually features the story of a big beast hunted by a group of men, and in the end the wounded beast becomes the bowl in the Big Dipper (or Ursa Major) constellation, while the three men become the handle.

With this design I wanted to pay tribute to our common ancestors and the first poets and musicians who sang this myth. The rosette is a stylized vision of a day/night cycle, which is an important poetic figure into the story, and a deconstructed Ursa Major, featuring the hunters and the beast that run in the celestial vault in an infinite circle.

Specs:

– Sitka spruce top
– Exotic ebony back/sides
– Exotic ebony fretboard
– Ebony binding
– Double-X top bracing, uncoupled triple-X back bracing
– 25″ scale length
– Cedrela (Spanish cedar) neck
– Glossy nitrocellulose finish
– Gotoh 510 tuners
– Double action truss rod

The “Musa” name clearly comes from the greek Muses (Μοῦσαι in ancient greek), which were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosine. They were the patrons of the arts and music, and inspiration for all artists.

Specs:

– Bavarian spruce top
– Wenge back/sides
– Wenge bindings
– Wenge fretboard
– Honduran mahogany neck
– 635mm (25″) scale length
– Double-X bracing
– Satin, open pore nitrocellulose finish
– Rubner Germany tuners

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