Galanti Grand Prix

I traded for this today--it's a 1967 Galanti Grand Prix. It's a really neat guitar, with cool pushbuttons that operate the various pickup combos and a really sophisticated and elegant bridge and engraved taildragger trem assembly. It has the lowest and fastest action of any guitar I've played--too low for me, as a matter of fact, as I find I'm overplaying it a bit. The pickups are mini humbuckers (allegedly--haven't opened one up yet), and it has the patina you'd expect from a 52 year old guitar that spent the last several years touring with the young touring pro I bought it from. But the neck is nice and straight, and the intonation is spot on.

These things were pretty emblematic of the sixties mod scene. I love the look and feel of guitars from this era.






Lots of other beautiful, stylish, cool things came out of Italy in 1967.






Lily, who has spent many hours tolerating my attempts to play, is able to sleep through pretty much anything.

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Hey, I've got one of those. Haven't even opened the case in years.



It had some other nameplate over the Galanti, long lost.



The push buttons quit working, so they were replaced with a SG switch.
The small toggle puts the neck pickup out of phase.



There's a chunk of wood missing on the back of the body from falling against something. I have no idea how that happened. I blame my brother.

Very cool! Does it still have the "tone killing" circuitry hooked up? I removed it from mine today and resoldered some of the weak 52 yo connections. Makes it roar.