FS/FT Galanti Grand Prix 2V 1966 model RARE (New Photos added) - PRICE DROP - SOLD

david86 · November 2015

Hey guys i've decided after a lot of thought to sell my Galanti.

This thing is a beast!

Plays and sounds beautiful. It's been used mostly in the studio, i've never toured it i've just gigged a few times.

Some would describe it as a angry Jazzmaster.

Everything works great on it.

The unique design of the pickup selector takes abit of getting used to but it all works fine.

Everything is original. The only thing i've had to do is stick the bottom corner of the pick guard back (hopefully you can see from the photos).

Comes with the original hard case.

£820 £700 with original case but open to trades aswell

david86 · November 2015

The history..

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

But then came the Beatles… they almost single-handedly ignited the frenzied guitar craze of the 1960’s. Bye bye accordion…

So… in Italy, several accordion manufacturers jumped into the guitar boom with highly designed, european-styled guitar models. But this Galanti Grand Prix is without a doubt the best of the bunch. Head and shoulders above the rest.

R. Galanti and Bro. 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. The ad ran in Music Trades magazine.

’65 was the high-water mark for electric guitar demand, and Galanti was attempting to ride the wave. But demand in the late ’60s began to slow and these guitars went the way of the dinosaur. Nonetheless, Italian designers created some of the coolest, most playable guitars outside of the U.S.

Builder:

Galanti

Model:

Grand Prix

Serial Number:

7438

Year:

1966

Color:

Sunburst

Body:

Mahogany

Top:

Mahogany

Neck:

Maple

Fretboard:

Rosewood

Pickups:

2 Galanti Single Coil

HarrySeven · November 2015

Beautiful.

david86 · November 2015

@harryseven thanks man.
It's a beautiful piece of work.
Italian curves.

Jookyjr · November 2015

Wow. I was reading about these the other day. Amazing looking guitar, if only...

GLWTS

david86 · November 2015

@jookyjr thank you sir

Gadgie · November 2015

nice:)

xJonnysixstring · November 2015

Wow! I repaired one of those pickups last year, the loudest pickup we have ever had on the bench!

Jookyjr · November 2015

david86;846882" said:
@jookyjr thank you sir

No worries - it is in the '1001 Guitars to Dream of Playing before you snuff it' book

david86 · November 2015

@jookyjr nice!

david86 · November 2015

@jonnysixstring what guitar was it from?

xJonnysixstring · November 2015

@david86 I have no idea it arrived in a box minus guitar.

david86 · November 2015

Forgot to say I live in bradford.
You're more than welcome to come try it out.
I'll be able to post at buyers expense aswell.
Thanks

david86 · November 2015

@jonnysixstring i wonder what it came out of

xJonnysixstring · November 2015

One of these I would imagine, can't see them fitting in anything else, very deep pickups

david86 · November 2015

@jonnysixstring yeah true.

david86 · December 2015

Bump
I'd hate to put this on evil bay.

david86 · December 2015

Any thoughts on this bad boy?

david86 · February 2016

New photos added

david86 · February 2016

bump

price drop

david86 · February 2016

Bump

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