Country : |
Italy - Bologna |
Year : | 2024 |
Scale length : | 648 mm |
Top : | Spruce |
Back & side | Madagascar rosewood |
Fingerboard : | Ebony - 51 mm |
Body length : | 475 mm |
Body width : | 273 / 235 / 358 mm |
Body depth : | 90 / 95 mm |
Weight : | 1 395 mm |
Action : | 3 /4 mm |
Condition : | New |
Price : | 8 400 euros |
Angelo Vailati was born in 1977 in Treviglio in the Bergamo area. Interested in guitar making since he was a child, he enrolled in 2001 at the "Civica Scuola di Liuteria di Milano". He is also one of those young Italian luthiers trained by Enrico Botelli (2005). He discovers his taste for historical Spanish guitar makers : Torres, Manuel Ramirez, Santos Hernández, Esteso... In 2006, he follows a course of Romanillos. In 2008, he goes to Granada in the workshop of Daniele Chiesa. Today his studio is in Bologna.
This guitar is inspired by the Torres SE114 (1888) which belonged to Francisco Tárrega. The aesthetics is superb and the workmanship (rosette, purfling, etc.) is of a remarkable quality, elegant and of a refined style. The sound is round and deep, the trebles are clear, dense, the notes are silky, smooth, vibrant and colorful with a great harmonic richness. An instrument with a beautiful musical presence, lively and expressive, offering the guitarist a wide sound palette.