TOO MAR-VE-LIS FOR WORDS

  Per BG Artist/MI Director Beth Marlis with her Bambino Elite -- "best Jazz Guitar EVER!"

photo courtesy Kathleen Clark

 MADE IN THE SHADES

Just a sampling of some of our luscious colors including espresso, claret, opulent brown and autumnburst  :-)

THE ANDY MAN CAN

  It's the first of the month so it's "Captain Dave & Andy" time again!

(actually I am a month 'off' as this photo shows CD ringing in the New Year at beautiful Cannon Beach in Oregon)

Thanks for being the Andy Man, CD!  :-)

(Don't you wish Sammy Davis, Jr. was here to sing this 'new version'?)  :-)

PIZZARELLI at PALLADIUM

Statesmen of Jazz concert at Palladium Theater, St Petersburg, Florida featuring Bucky Pizzarelli  (on 16-B Custom 7-string made for Bucky) clarinet and sax player Bob Wilber, pianist Rossano Sportiello, saxophonist Antii Sarpila and bassist Nicki Parrott.

January 21, 2010   by Tracy May

NOSTALGIC ELECTRIC

1982 Benedetto Custom Electric, dubbed a 'Semi-detto' by jazz guitar historian Adrian Ingram

LIKE NO OTHER

THEM THERE EYES

   New BG Fan Dave Rattray of Scotland blew us away with this clip performed on his new ANDY  :-)

Thanks, Dave! (can hardly wait to hear what you perform on your pending Bravo 7 Custom)

 Attention BGers: Just imagine what YOU could play  :-)

Photo courtesy Mike Oria (of his own ANDY!)

 LOVIN' TUNEFUL

 It's Flashback Friday again!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?

Five years ago: January, 2005 NAMM Show, Benedetto Guitars at Fender Musical Instruments Booth

The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, a regular at the booth each year, admired our thinline Manhattan...

  :-)

BRAVO!

Our first ever BRAVO with a natural top

Clean & classic!

ALDEN & ANAT in ACTION

   Howard Alden and Anat Cohen at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

photo by Jeff Bridges

BLACK AND TAN FANTASY

A perennial favorite...our Black BRAVO!

HOW HIGH THE HONEYMOON

"I am still on honeymoon with my Benedetto La Venezia. Bob's guitar is an inexhaustible source of inspiration."

- Guitarist Dominique Chartier with his new LA VENEZIA

"Guitar Forte" is a special classical project Dominique is working on. "You know my feeling about the quality of your work and how the La Venezia is a revelation for me. I am sure other guitar players are looking for this kind of instrument."

photo by Dominique's son François

Thank you both!

TEXAS STRONGHOLD

Guitar great Clint Strong with his beloved Bambino Deluxe (mine, too!)

Gorgeous photography by Greg Westfall, 2009

SINCE 1968!

 ELITE REPEAT

Who doesn't love repeat customers?

NYU Music Student Isaac Chatfield (left) proudly holds his second Benedetto, a new honey blonde Bambino Elite Custom  (his first is a Bambino Deluxe he purchased from Sound Pure in NC). Per Isaac: "Thank you very much! It has been an incredible instrument."

(Right): JJG's Ed Benson happily tries out his new Custom Bambino Deluxe (with Elite styling) in Violinburst, "duoing" with Howard on our Bambino Elite Aquamarine Burst from Bob's Boutique.

STRING OF PEARL

A custom 16-B in our first-ever "Black Pearl" finish. Not black (nor bleak!) but definitely magnetic  :-)

One of today's hottest coolest colors on our snazzy 16-B. Coming to the Boutique!