That is a beauty and sounds great - Congratulations!! My past experiences with instruments from Bernunzio have all been positive, too. (Now it becomes like other relationships...dependent on the...
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That is a beauty and sounds great - Congratulations!! My past experiences with instruments from Bernunzio have all been positive, too. (Now it becomes like other relationships...dependent on the...
That piece is beautiful, Rob...but what about limiting the finger aspect as well to just our distinctive opposable ally? To wit:
https://youtu.be/FfVXJhg4TxA
Full disclosure: My first "frets"...
Yes they are...and the back is nicely carved arched-style. The 80-something gentleman who sold it to me runs a multi-generation plating business in Brooklyn. They were downstairs in the same...
Not totally a prop. She played uke tuning....got that years ago from an old horn player who backed her up in Las Vegas back in the day.
1983 Carlo Greco LP-type solid body
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Odd, the pic rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise...
1954 Gretsch Electromatic "Spanish" Tenor
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1951 Epiphone Triumph Regent (cutaway) in original case!
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For sure, Rob! Carlo did a group of "natural" top solid body instruments at that time. A (rock) band mate of mine at the time bought one of three 6-string solid bodies Carlo built which were a made...
I didn't want to sound too spaced-out with my last comment about "seeing what kind of acoustic sound...", so I will atone for it (musical pun intended) with a few pics of the Carlo LP-type solid body...
Hi Jim - I was a pupil of Roy's too (late 70's -early 80's), but I had been introduced to Carlo earlier by my first banjo teacher, Jim Harkins. I've got one of Roy's old Martin style O soprano ukes...
Thought this might be of interest for TG folks. Vinnie Mondello (TX) is working on finishing a project begun over 30 years ago by NY luthier Carlo Greco for Tiny Grimes back in late 1988. Tiny died...