Eko Maccaferri style guitar

[garthman]

Have a look at this (especially Lauren):

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EKO-El-Gaucho-Rare-Italian-Gypsy-Guitar-70s-maccaferri_W0QQitemZ300165737764QQihZ020QQcategoryZ141186QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

I didn't know that Eko had ever made a model like this.

[Terry Allan Hall]

Wow... a Maccaferi-styled gut-string!

 

Too cool!

[simplygoodmusic]

Very very very cool!

[babablowfish]

Very nice, and definitely different.

[Etienne Rambert]

EKO makes fine instruments. I owned an EKO 12 string back before Kenny Rogers was kinda cool. Last 12 string I ever owned. Fastest neck I've ever seen or played on a 12-string.

[simplygoodmusic]

 

EKO makes fine instruments. I owned an EKO 12 string back before Kenny Rogers was cool. Last 12 string I ever owned. Fastest neck I've ever seen or played on a 12-string.

 

 

I've never played their acoustics BUT...

 

The music school I used to go to had this eko electric bass. It had rusty, old strings. The buttons had all been pulled out. And yet. it was one of the best basses I ever played. It was most probably a one off, because this thing was phenomenal!

[Stackabones]

Wow... a Maccaferi-styled gut-string! Too cool!

 

I've heard that the D-holes were originally designed as gut-stringers!!!

 

That Eko is sooo :love:!

[denvertrakker]

Freakin' gorgeous! Even if the top is "lamented"...

[EvilTwin]

I've heard that the D-holes were originally designed as gut-stringers!!!

 

Yup.

 

 

http://www.lutherie.net/bckgrnd.html

(...about half way down the page.)

 

(Interesting page, too: http://www.vintageguitardealers.com/brands/details.asp?ID=59)

 

Anywho, that Eko is absolutely beautiful...although its bridge may have seen better days.

[Stackabones]

Yup. http://www.lutherie.net/bckgrnd.html (...about half way down the page.) (Interesting page, too: http://www.vintageguitardealers.com/brands/details.asp?ID=59 ) Anywho, that Eko is absolutely beautiful...although its bridge may have seen better days.

 

 

I'd really like to hear that original internal resonator with nylons.

[garthman]

 

Anywho, that Eko is absolutely beautiful...although its bridge may have seen better days.

 

 

Well spotted. I don't think it's damaged. It looks to me as if it originally had an adjustable saddle in there (a lot of Eko's had these) - have a look at the close up photo of the bridge - you can see that cutout where the saddle mechanism fitted.

 

PS. Read the article - interesting. But I'm pretty sure steel strings have been around a lot longer than the 30's.