VINTAGE BY EKO - 1962 CRUCIANELLI ELITE 40-V BLACK...

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CRUCIANELLI EARLY SOLID BODIES

Elite/Crucianelli
40-V 1962-65
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Type Solidbody electric
Body & neck Mahogany body, maple neck
Fingerboard Ebony - Jumbo Frets - GROVER Tuners
Pick-ups Four vintage single-coil pick-ups
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By the mid-1960s, Oliviero Pigini's EKO- a company
based in Castelfidardo - was Italy's top electric guitar exporter.
In the same town, Crucianelli - accordion builders since 1888 - had turned to guitar manufacture in the 1950s;
its Elite range soon became Pigini's main competitor.

Outside influences are well in evidence on the Elite 40-V shown here, variations of which had been produced since 1962.
There is the asymmetrical body styling of the Fender/Jaguar/Jazzmaster, and the slim headstock echoes the Burns "batwing" style found on the Bison.
Otherwise, the guitar exhibits many typical Italian accordion - style characteristics, such as the use of plastic, sparkling finishes, four-pick-ups configurations, and push batton controls.
Crucianelli guitars were often exported with different badges, such as Ardsley, Baron, Crestone, Philharmonic, Reno, Supreme, and Sorrento.
Like EKO, Crucianelli also made what some mistakenly regard as English guitars for the Vox company. TB

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