Sicilian Gipsy Guitar

Kborello

Hey mates,

I inherited one guitar from a south Italian grandparent I do not play or use -) Available if anybody is interested in purchasing...the guitar needs some restoration, but it is an authentic piece! The guitar is currently in Italy, Milan, but it can be shipped -)

Thanks' all

Kingsley

billyshakes

Great looking guitar! Like it belongs in the Sicilian guitar thread. I think there is one with that black and green inlay over there.

Edit: Yup, found it. Page 10. @AndyW says its a Caponetto. Love the fretboard inlays along the sides of the neck. Wonder if the guitar linked below had a new fretboard put on? The one above looks like it is an original fretboard.

https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/17305/sicilian-gypsy-folk-guitar/p10

AndyW

Cheers, Billy , yes, built by Stefano Caponnetto, in the mid to late 1930s at a guess, the eagle with its wings protecting city & sea is associated with Italian irredentist expansionism under Benito Mussolini at that time.

(I think that the eagle is also gripping a 'fascio', the bundle of wooden sticks which is the symbol of Italian Fascism)

It might be labelled with Caponnetto (maybe with a Caracas Venezuelan export label?), or 'Abate' or 'Miroglio' or maybe even 'Napoli' - let us know !

I'm surprised to see a nylon acoustic version with fixed bridge, I think of these guitars as mostly end-strung in steel with a floating bridge. In fact - is that bridge a more recent addition? , and do I see the shadow of a metal bridge on the surface where a tailpiece might once have been ??

-A-