1961 MEAZZI Mod. VANGUARD Sparkling Red 3/4 Model Made in Italy. Original Circuit with 2 Single coil pickups. Two Volums. Original Circuit with 2 Single coil pickups. All working well. Restored guitar all original except the old period tuners adapted and ouput jack. "C" Staight neck. A rare guitar with a fantastic look and a fascinating vintage sound. Comes in Original Case.

Meazzi is one of the historic brands of musical instruments in Italy. Lombard entrepreneurs, unlike the Marche tribe of Eko & co, were a giant that also distributed watches, amplifiers, professional equipment and music editions. Meazzi was also and above all synonymous with batteries in Italy and around the world.

Meazzi began distributing guitars by turning to some Sicilian companies. Among the Sicilians we have not yet identified the suppliers except, of course, for the maestro Francesco Abramo who built most of the electrics between 61 and 63. In the catalog they were accompanied by the production of skilled Lombard craftsmen who we can identify as Giuseppe Panati, Stradella 1925 – 1981, who built guitars on behalf of Meazzi in the very early 60s. Panati began his professional activity at the prestigious Mariano Dallapè accordion factory in Stradella. He set up his own business immediately after the Second World War to build piano keyboards for the numerous accordion factories in the city. The manufacture of guitars began after 1960, the year in which the accordion crisis began. He continued his activity as a lutherie maker until the end of his days, alongside the production of accordions from 1975 onwards, taking over from the Coop company. l’Armonica ceased the same year. zimmermann Among the brands of Meazzi there was also the German Zimhermann, but the total lack of information on the brand makes us suspect an internal branding operation as Davoli had done with Krundaal. At the time the Germans had a reputation for greater quality and reliability and the foreign-loving nature of the Italians could guarantee better margins with a foreign brand. Zimhermann is not a German name, and only a few years earlier Meazzi distributed accessories and styluses for Zimmermann gramophones. On the other hand, Framez also copied the Teutonic Framus.

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