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New Semiacustica variation
Luca Guidarini is a talented very young (19) jazz player and our newest endorser. Ready for a summer concerts with a fresh new band, he performs beginning in August at the Eddie Lang Jazz Festival at...
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Manne T shirts
We have Manne t-shirts available now!! Take a look at the t-shirts page on our website: http://www.manne.com/it/t-shirts/ Currently it is based on an online Italian t-shirts company, so the final...
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New bass piezo Bridge
In February 2012, I did a post about a new Acoustibass bridge. Well.. I am back again with another new Acoustibass-VibraBass bridge. The look is very similar to previous version, but the layout of the...
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Taos Briccola
When a piece of Briccola (the Dolphins or poles which show the paths to boats in the Venetian lagoon) was shown to me, I though it was a good material to create a special project for the Holy Grail...
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New WOODY PHANTOM model
The new Woody Phantom introduces the use of mixing desk phantom power, as a power source for the bass active piezo preamp. Thru an XLR connector the bass will supply DI output and make use of the...
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Guitar for Sightless
Valentino Valente asked me to build an instruments that perfectly fit his needs. After letting him try many options like set-neck or bolt-on neck, light or heavy body woods, longer or shorter string...
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New Passive “TriTone” Control
A collaboration with the well known electronic/amp tech Roberto “Wally” Olivieri, we had an idea to realize a new passive tone that could offer more possibilities to bassists. In the center position...
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New Fillmore Bass Model
The new Manne Fillmore bass model uses a new version of our asymmetrical body shape, slightly reshaped with a thinner body of 40mm in thickness. The body in sycamore is almost entirely flat except for...
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New Sedona Bass Model
The new Manne Sedona bass model incorporates many new elements we have been working on for some time, to offer our latest innovations and features in the Manne top–of–the–line bass model. We are using...
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New Manne sites
New manne sites with our offers for repairs and set-ups or modern luthiery courses. http://riparazioniesetup.com/ all the instructions and infos on how to send us an instrument for repairs or set-ups....
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New Lutherie Courses
Several months ago, we started a program of individual courses for modern lutherie. Courses are dedicated to players or to luthiers and they cover many subjects from the setup and basic instruments...
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New Taos XL
Since its debut in ’93, the Manne Taos was always built with 25.2″ string scale. We have already produced some Taos instruments with a slightly longer 25.5″ scale, but now we have decided to completely...
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Stolen instrument page
After the misadventure at Musikmesse, we decide to create and post on facebook a page of stolen Manne instruments https://www.facebook.com/stolenmanne For now there are just our remaining missing...
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Sense and story of my guitar making
Recently a European guitar builders association FB group had some interesting discussions with us about the definition of handmade guitars and the sense of what we are building. “I can say that...
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Guitar Exchange Interview
“Andrea ‘Manne’ Ballarin is a benchmark of Italian lutherie, intended as art, tradition and innovation; an industry’s cornerstone at trade shows and exhibitions, whether in Italy or abroad. His guitars...
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New 27” Manne Ventura Baritone Reverse
We have further developed the Ventura, building a new Baritone model using a slightly more asymmetrical body shape, flat top with just the upper horn slightly slanted back to match the longer 27”...
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New Manne T-Bone Model
The Manne T-Bone model features a sycamore body slightly reduced in thickness (40mm instead of our classic 45), with the right weight to offer bite and meaty tones with body. The shape is reminiscent...
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New improvements on the neck body joint.
Manne has made a new development on our classic body-neck joint system, creating a new “embedded neck joint plate”. Here is how it was made. http://www.manne.com/en/ideas/#guitarneckbodyjoint Instead...
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Daniele Camarda on Woody Bass Project
Daniele Camarda talks about the Woody bass project giving demonstration of the peculiar voicing of this bass. See the Playlist with all the videos on Woody Bass project https://goo.gl/qXhMJz
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Is the Temperament true?
After reading the informative book “How equal temperament ruined Harmony” by Ross W. Duffin, I still have the same question. Is the true temperament useful? Theoretically, Equal Temperament was devised...
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