Although they were produced in very small numbers, there are quite a few Wandres' available right now on Reverb. Eastwood has issued two models of Wandre replicas, the Soloist and the Doris models, and Duesenberg has a Wandre'-inspired model also. He owns three Soloist models, all purchased from a Colorado pawn shop in the 70's, for very little money. Probably best as a wallhanger.Īmericana guitarist Buddy Miller is probably the best known Wandre' player. It had an aluminum neck encased in plastic, a metal gasket that looked like it came from a 50's kitchen table, running around the body, and a very strange finish that looked hastily applied. Let's just say it had its limitations and quirks. I actually played a Wandre' one day at Lark Street Music, a Selene model, which looked like a huge teardrop.
Now, I want a Wandre guitar for the collection. I was pretty familiar with Wandre' and his instruments before, but the book gives much more detail, of course. Some of them were exceedingly strange in appearance, offering shapes that were globular and even one based on an insect's body called the Scarabeo (Scarab) and one called the BB, named after Bridget Bardot. He built a round factory in northern Italy and produced some of the most unusual guitars ever seen over a ten plus year period, guitars that now fetch thousands. Wandre' Pioli was quite a character, a conceptual artist, partisan fighter in WWII, free thinker, luthier, mad genius and more. I'll read one and put the other away untouched.
I scored two copies of the very rare Book, Wandre', The Artist Of Electric Guitar, English version this past week.
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