Ciao Bella! Beautiful smaller bodied acoustic all the way from 1960’s Italy! Plays like a dream and sounds gorgeous with all the jangly 60’s Italian charm, and it’s super comfortable to play standing up with a strap!
The Italian guitars are where the magic is. This guitar has all the sparkle and charm. It's an amazing fingerpicker with a feather-sensitive light touch and a gorgeous Joni Mitchell mid-range tone. The neck is straight as an arrow, action is insanely low with nice and bouncy string response. Intonation is fantastic, every note and chord sounds lively and in-tune, there's a lot of life and spirit inside this one. It's a gorgeous little instrument. I love that pick guard! The 60's/70's Italian guitars had the coolest reflective plastics, a lot influence from the shiny and sparkly Italian accordions made its way over to their guitars. Has the original acrylic saddle with tons of life left on it. This is a proper Vox that was made in Italy with the bolt on neck, like a mini version of the one he used to record Ramble on! I think this guitar rules for fingerpicking and I have it set up with pretty light strings, but it could easily take heavier strings no problem and become a front persons hard strumming guitar. Lot of tone lives in this guitar, message me for a video!
Finding the perfect acoustic to stand and play with can be a hard pursuit. Sometimes a dreadnaught that feels just right when you're sitting down can feel like you have a kayak strapped to the front of you when you stand up with it. Especially with bigger acoustics that have a lot of depth, they can be tough to get your arm around while standing up with a strap. A smaller guitar to stand up and play with can't just be a smaller guitar, it has to also be a good guitar with some rad vibe that you enjoy playing. This one has the true vintage vibes, the sound, the feel, the everything I want in an acoustic guitar to stand up and play with. I played it with a sound hole pickup straight into a Fender blues jr and it was epic. Beautiful and sparkly tone. These heavily laminated italian guitars are naturally more feedback resistant than other acoustics, and the smaller body helps a lot with feedback as well. You can get a lot more volume before feedback creeps in on this guitar more than most others that are larger, the feedback has less of a place inside the guitar to swell up in.
This one is in pretty stunning condition for the age. It almost looks new and not close to 60 years old. The bridge was off the guitar when I got it, I had to get creative with the way it was reattached, but it's on there for life now and it sounds like it's making great resonant contact with top. I put a small shim in the neck pocket to raise it up and angle it back just a bit, the neck angle is totally perfect and the guitar is loving life right now. I also replaced the gross rusted bridge screws with some fresh stainless steel ones. Guitar stays in tune for days, feels great, sounds great, and is an awesome little companion! Great guitar!
