Antica Ukuleleria

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GALILEO

Galileo represents the current culmination of years of experience and research, aimed at both improving the acoustic characteristics of my instruments, but also optimizing and simplifying their production, pursuing the idea of making a high quality functional instrument affordable to as many people as possible.

Galileo ukulele

SPECS

Carefully made with European woods, combining traditional hand craft and CNC aided processes. 

Body: Cherry or Chestnut

Soundboard: same wood of the body

Neck: same wood of the body

Scale: Soprano, Tenor or Baritone 

Fretboard and bridge: light color oiled wood (Oak or Pear depending on availability)

Price
Soprano: 620 €
Tenor: 720 €
Baritone: 820€

OPTIONS

Spruce soundboard:  +40€
It gives a richer sound and more volume. It is also a much delicate wood that catch scratches and dings more easily.

Antiqued chestnut finish: +80€
Available only with chestnut body and soundboard

Case
Softbag: 35 €
Handmade antiqued hard case: 110€

Order a Galileo

Secure your slot in the building list by booking a Galileo Ukulele.
You will only be asked to pay the deposit, the balance due will be requested once the instrument has been completed.

Baritone Cherry Galileo Fretboard
Tenor Chestnut Galileo with Srpuce top - Front
Tenor Chestnut Galileo with Srpuce top - Back

MORE INFO ABOUT GALILEO

Galileo is Antica Ukuleleria’s latest model…why this name?
It refers to Galileo Galilei, the famous Italian physicist from the 1500s, father of the scientific method consisting in observation, research, hypothesis, test, data and then conclusions.

Even after years of experience, luthiery often reserves some aspects for which one sometimes feels like walking blind. The particular modular design of this model allows the scientific method to be applied more effectively, by isolating the various parts of the instrument it is possible to have a clearer idea of what is happening acoustically.

These are the ideas I was experimenting with and wanted to include in this model:

  • Module design: modules are joint together at last moment, after being tested and finely tuned separately.
  • Light and vibratile soundboard & back plate.
  • Strong and heavy frame carved from solid wood, in order not to absorb and therefore waste energy from the soundboard and the back.
  • Elevated fretboard, to raise the angle of the strings on the soundboard, so to enhance the vibration modes responsible for the volume of the instrument.
  • Bolt-on neck.
 

Thanks to these features with Galileo you will have a thin-line ukulele with a sound that has nothing to envy to larger ones. The look is minimal yet peculiar. The front and the back modules are joint with a visible and touchable line that gives a nice eye-catching detail. The solid frame design offers an unusual wood grain layout and a very comfortable feeling with its rounded corners.

Available in cherry wood for a slightly deeper and rounder tone, or in chestnut wood for a sharper and clearer sound.
Chestnut comes also in Antiqued finish that fits very well with its nice open pore texture.
Soundboard can be upgraded and made with Italian Red Spruce, coming from the same forests from which Stradivari sourced his wood. Spruce gives a richer sound and more volume. It is also a much delicate wood that catch scratches and dings more easily.

"FATHER AND SON" DESIGN

Galileo is designed to minimize the waste of material typical of a hollow instrument: soundboard and back ar not carved from the same block of their frames, but glued on them later, like in a traditional acoustic instrument. In this way the internal wood is not discarded consumed by the router, but remains whole and usable. The design is made to allow for two Allegros to be made from these two remaining block. 

Galileo Cherry Top
The top module
Galileo Cherry Back
The back module
Galileo Allegro
Father and son

Order a Galileo

Secure your slot in the building list by booking a Galileo Ukulele.
You will only be asked to pay the deposit, the balance due will be requested once the instrument has been completed.

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