Product: Galanti Special
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
04/16/2003
at
05:45am
by
RAFFAELE PERILLO
Email: raffaeleperillo<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
7
Galanti special limited edition is a 69 italian solid body guitar that comes with 22 frets, pearl covered top and tre active pickup.
It has controls for volume, tones and distortion...
Yeah!!! it has an integrated circuitry for distorion!!!
There's a plastic switch near tone control and you'll have a nasty vintage distortion!!!
The selection of pickup is done via buttons so you can blend sounds in a particular way.
I haven't noted the "horrible sound" it makes during the push of buttons reported in the previous review, maybe a dirt electric switch.
On bridge there's also a vibrato lever very handy but not for extensive use, it tends to detune the strings.
On bridge there's also a chromed string blocker easy to use for palm muting.
The keyboard is pure mahogany and frets despite the years are good.
On the back there's the mounting hole for the 9V battery.
Sound
:
8
The sound is old and old and old.It can remember rickembacker or something "icy".
I use it for a wide range of music.
Psichedelic, Prog, metal and blues.
Depending on settings you make it can have a very warm or icy sound.
A not so good thing: you can take too much distorion or it screams like a dying pork.;)
The finest: put a reverb, a little chorus and delay, a gate and a bit of compression: Have u ever heard an electric violin?
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
Simply perfect.
Ev'ry thing is good, i look at it and i nearly love it. lol
On the back there's a silver plated sign with serial, mine is 0423
Reliability/Durability
:
7
This Galanti has never betrayed me live.
Customer Support
:
1
Galanti is long ago dead...
Overall Rating
:
8
Product: Galanti Special
Price Paid: N/A used
Submitted
01/18/2002
at
08:25pm
by
Dr. Louis Gvzman
Features
:
5
- Early 70's italian electric-solid body guitar. It has three (3) single coil pick-ups, adjustable (with a knob) vibrato, one (1) volume & one (1) tone controls, full scale medium-neck, five (5) push-button switches (reminds me of late 50's Chrysler Torquematic in-dash shift selectors, although I'm still in my 30's).
Sound
:
7
Very nice 60's sound, kinda twangy. Has a wide variety of sounds; can sound from very trebleish to bassy with the push of button and mid-range sounds are easily obtainable. However, the "click" sound made during the pushing of a button makes sounds terrible (therefore, one can forget about switching sounds during a solo, although this axe is best for rhythm, can sound like a Rickenbacker with no sweat).
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
The action is pretty good as well is overall quality. This guitar was meticously built. Tuner are sealed and pretty accurate. As previously stated, the pcikup selector push-button switches are noisy.
Reliability/Durability
:
7
This guitar is very reliable. Chrome hardware has not rusted after alost thirty (30) years. Nonetheless, the finish which was once white has turned into a pretty intense or deep yellow. The fret-board has a very dull finish.
Customer Support
:
1
Haven't found any, not even in the web.
Overall Rating
:
8
I've been playing since I was 11. My stable; the Galanti Special,'69 SG w/Vibrola, '01 BC Rich Mockingbird (NJ Neck-Thru-Series), late 90's 325V63 Rick, late 90's Tele (korean), late 90's Hofner copy (Beatle Bass) and a Yamaha acoustic (dreadnought). I enjoy the sounds produce by this guitar very much, though I wished it had a toggle switch instead of the pushbuttons (although it does have a very "retro" look). One thing I certainly dislike is the fact that it is a very heavy guitar (all that weight does not translate into sustain, for some reason).
