Giannini Guitars: Anyone familiar?

[Creamyapples1]

Recent purchase @ a yardsale. Plays good, stays in tune, sounds excellent. My first "classical" and I'm very much falling in love with it.

I tried contacting the manufacturer to see if I could get any information from them, but that was about 3 weeks ago and no response, so I figure maybe some of you guys may know something about them.

 

[kojdogg]

hah-- nice production date

 

[Creamyapples1]

I had my speculations as to whether it was actually the production date or not. If it is, not a bad buy for 50 bucks.

 

[Harvey Gerst]

Giannini guitars were made in Brazil and imported into the US by Palo Alancar, a nice little man who's still around today; he's about 80 years old. They are nice playing guitars. His distribution center at the time I bought one was an upstairs office on La Brea Blvd. in Los Angeles. That looks like one of the lower priced models, which were still pretty nice.

 

[Anfontan]

They also made one of the oddest looking 12 strings-a friend had one that he tuned to concert pitch (A-440) and the bridge pulled loose on it.
It had to be sent back to Brazil for repairs and was destroyed by UPS in shipping. I recall it was a nice playing 12 string once........

 

[dementedchord]

i worked with a guy in a fusion band that had one... he seemed to like it quite a bit... and had enough other good guitars that i felt safe in taking his opinion...

 

[YeshuasFan]

Ah, yes, the Giannini Craviola. They came in 3-models: nylon string, 6-string (steel string), and 12-string. I had a friend in college who had a nylon string Craviola. He wasn't too thrilled with the sound as it lacked bottom end. But he was, like me, a college student with limited income and had to take what he could afford. Plus, it was so unusual in appearance it was like a babe magnet.
I understand after several years' absence from our shores, they are again available--and for those lacking the $$ to purchase the real thing can by a clone marketed under the Jay Turser label.