Editorial

article published on the catalog of 2016 Holy Grail Guitar Show , organized by EGB European Guitar Builders.   It’s a very common opinion among players that the tone of the electric guitar [...]

I have been privileged to act as the U.S. distributor for Manne Guitars during the past 10+ years. Acting in this role, I have learned many things about the guitar business. Today, there many [...]

We are working on a webstore to offer direct shopping to customers worldwide. Is available on the Manne website at /it/buy-online/ Instruments are available also on reverb.com/shop/manneguitars [...]

New FB page for “vintage” Manne instruments from the ’80 and ’90. https://www.facebook.com/manneagedcollection/ We will add old pictures, and when available, pictures sent by owners.

For those who read italian only /files/andreaballarin.pdf Thanks to Fabio Artoni https://www.strumentimusicalinews.it/

“Andrea ‘Manne’ Ballarin is a benchmark of Italian lutherie, intended as art, tradition and innovation; an industry’s cornerstone at trade shows and exhibitions, whether in [...]

On 31 July agents of the investigation department of the penal section of Municipal Poznan (Poland) Police, arrested seven men suspected to be the responsible for the theft of 200,000 euros in [...]

Recently a European guitar builders association FB group had some interesting discussions with us about the definition of handmade guitars and the sense of what we are building. “I can say that [...]

After the misadventure at Musikmesse, we decide to create and post on facebook a page of stolen Manne instruments https://www.facebook.com/stolenmanne  For now there are just our remaining [...]

Several months ago, we started a program of individual courses for modern lutherie. Courses are dedicated to players or to luthiers and they cover many subjects from the setup and basic [...]

New manne sites with our offers for repairs and set-ups or modern luthiery courses. https://riparazioniesetup.com/  all the instructions and infos on how to send us an instrument for repairs or [...]

November 15-16 at the Estrel Hotel in Berlin. This was the appointment written on my agenda and on another 120 agendas of exhibitors and on another 7,000 agendas of high qualified visitors who [...]

We have Manne t-shirts available now!! Take a look at the t-shirts page on our website: /it/t-shirts/ Currently it is based on an online Italian t-shirts company, so the final ordering page is in [...]

www.legnoveneto.it There is a consortium created last year, that has started putting together all businesses about wood in the Italian region of Veneto, the region Manne is from. This is to [...]

Interview on GuitarNews.it Magazine in Italy: [...]

Take a look INSIDE our shop using the Google Street View viewer. Here is the link. Use the normal Google Street View navigation tools to pan around and move through each door and see the entire [...]