I knew the
Giannini Craviola acoustic guitars - some have been
presented on this blog already - but wasn't aware so far that at some point
Giannini produced a solid body version of the
Craviola.
Century-old Brazilian guitar company
Giannini made solid bodies between the 70s and the 90s, mostly copies of
Fender and
Gibson, but there are no trace of this one in the catalogues I could check online. Nowadays, they are back to acoustics, including their most famous model, the asymmetric
Craviola that has the lower part of a guitar and the upper part of a lute (on the acoustic version it seems to have a strong influence on the sound - so much that on its
wikipedia article, it's not even labeled as a guitar!)
Of course, on a solid body the tone is not influenced by the design (or is it? this is an endless debate, and I'm on the side of the skeptical) but the result is beautiful, particularly since it's - as far as I can see on these photos - an archtop.
Simple and original, definitely a guitar I would happily add to my collection!
