Steel / No. 778
OM – Opus Virtuoso – Miles Davis
SeriesOpus Virtuoso
The story
Model: Opus Virtuoso
A 12-fret OM steel-string guitar created for immediacy, definition, low-end support and long sustain. Its 1954 Cedar of Lebanon double top, figured Black California Walnut Burl and Miles Davis-inspired inlay make it a singular concert instrument.
First in the World luthier guitar introduces the following innovations:
- ACOUSTIC TUBES inside the guitar neck with natural Baltic amber outlets
- S-WAVE RESONATOR double top
- A.R.S. back and sides
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
- PINLESS AFRICAN EBONY IMPEDANCE BRIDGE with stiffening wings
- AMBER HEADLIGHT
- ARC FRETS
- MILES DAVIS ARTWORK in mammoth bone and natural and coloured Baltic amber
Specifications
- Model
- Opus Virtuoso
- Type
- Steel-string OM, 12 frets to the body
- Guitar no.
- 778
- Double top
- 1954 Cedar of Lebanon / Alpine Spruce from Tirol
- Back and sides
- Highly figured Black California Walnut Burl with Sapwood
- Scale
- 24.9 inches
- Neck
- Asymmetric Turkowiak neck made of modified magnolia
- Fingerboard
- Elevated African ebony
- Soundhole
- Central soundhole with a natural Baltic amber rosette and two mammoth bone crown logos
- Head
- Slotted shape with double natural Baltic amber headplates and a mammoth bone logo
- Nut
- 43 mm, mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Saddle
- Mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Bridge
- Pinless African ebony impedance bridge with stiffening wings, inlaid with mammoth bone and natural Baltic amber
- Armrest and rib bevel
- African ebony
- Tuners
- Handmade tuning machines with ebony buttons, black aluminium bearing rollers and screw inlays, 18:1 ratio
- Binding
- African ebony
- Fingerboard markers
- Mammoth bone and Baltic amber markers, with concentric 3 mm details at fret 7 and double at fret 12
- Frets
- EVO-GOLD ArcFret
- Artwork
- Miles Davis-inspired faces in mammoth bone, with flowing lines in natural and coloured Baltic amber
- Varnish
- Highly resonant, antistatic, hand-polished high-gloss finish
- Hardcase
- Brand hardcase fitted to the guitar
- Warranty
- Life-time