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It's the first model of Archtop guitar in composite of Wood and Carbon Fibre born, after long and different researches on the materials. The Idea that stay to the base of its realization is that the Archtop guitar must be mainly an acoustic guitar, and like such playing to all the effects. The circuit of amplification and the pick up must have the function to exalt the peculiar acoustic characteristics of the instrument. From this principle the decision to maintain suspended regarding the harmonic table all the elements that do not concur directly to the creation of the acoustic "soul" of the guitar. Frome these, we obtain a "traditional "guitar in the sound and in the aesthetic, the "tipical" classical Jazz guitar, from Johnny Smith to Wes Montgomery. It's the preferred guitar of Sandro Gibellini. | MODEL | Classic 16" | | BODY STYLE | Acoustic Archtop (16” width, 3” depth) | | TOP | Val di Fiemme Spruce & Carbon Fibre | | BRACING | Val di Fiemme Spruce, parallel bracing | | BACK AND SIDES | Figured Maple & Carbon Fibre | | NECK | Two-piece European Flamed Maple | | FINGERBOARD | 12” radius, ebony | | INLAYS | Traditional Abalone Blanks, Abalone Dots on the side | | SCALE LENGHT | 25” | | NUMBER OF FRETS | 21 | | NUT | Bone | | BINDING | Flamed Maple and Ebony | | TUNING MACHINES | Schaller®, Ebony knobs | | HARWARE PLATING | Gold | | FINGERREST AND TAILPIECE | Brass & Ebony | | BRIDGE | Adjustable Ebony | | PICKUPS | Kent Armstrong®, USA, mod. Johnny Smith | | FINISH | Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer | | CASE | Hardshell |
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