This guitar ships in the case that's in the images up top. However, only one accordion button can be pushed down at a time. There are 4 switching options: O is for off, M is for all pickups on and the other two push buttons are for each pickup individually. The pickups are actually mini-humbuckers, and are extremely hot, with a very aggressive high end. It also sports a book matched rosewood fretboard! This Italian-made guitar was designed from the ground up, with most parts engineered and produced in house. The Galanti Grand Prix has a solid wood body, adjustable truss rod, preset tone switches, and a real sweet Galanti patented vibrato unit. The craftsmanship is outstanding, however, the wild push-button switches take some getting used to unless in your past musical life you happened to be Frank Yankovic. Nonetheless, Italian designers created some of the coolest, most playable guitars outside of the U.S.Īs far as I know this two-pickup version was listed as the Grand Prix V2. But demand in the late ’60s began to slow and these guitars went the way of the dinosaur. ’65 was the high-water mark for electric guitar demand, and Galanti was attempting to ride the wave. set up an office in Ridgefield, New Jersey, and in the summer of 1965 ran full color ads featuring three wildly new Galanti designs, two guitars and a bass. But this Galanti Grand Prix is without a doubt the best of the bunch. So… in Italy, several accordion manufacturers jumped into the guitar boom with highly designed, european-styled guitar models. In the 1920s the accordion was an exotic, expensive vaudeville instrument but it soon became a mass-market product with the peak of its popularity in the 1950s, exemplified by Lawrence Welk and Dick Contino.īut then came the Beatles… they almost single-handedly ignited the frenzied guitar craze of the 1960’s.

The Galanti Company had been making high-quality accordions since around 1900 and was successfully exporting them for sale in the USA.

It’s made from solid mahogany and sports a lot of typically European appointments, including nice Van Ghent tuners.

Action is low and the electronics work perfectly. A+ Guitar in every way particularly the cool factor.Ĭheck out the book-matched rosewood board! This thing is in excellent condition and plays as good as it looks.

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