Four Italian woods
Olive · Walnut · Maple · Spruce
Reserve
A tribute to the nature around Bacci’s Tuscan farm. Baritones that are never painted, built to put the beauty of fine Italian wood on display.
Olive top, tonal chambers, two outputs. The clips from that stage traveled further than any catalogue ever did.
Four fine Italian woods, each in two bodies: Respiro, hollow with tonal chambers and no sound holes, and Soffio, semi-hollow with sound holes of an original Bacci shape. Never painted, so the top you choose is the instrument you hear.
Warm and singing, with a dense complex grain that reads across a room. The wood Mancuso chose for the stage.
A hollow body with tonal chambers shaped over 400 hours of study, a balance of voids and solids that gives the full frequency range and more resonance at minimal weight. The wood becomes a vibrating part of the voice. Light on the shoulder, alive under the hands.
A semi-hollow body with sound holes of an original Bacci shape. A more acoustic response, a more velvet tone, a softer attack. Perfect played without a pick, and perfect to sit under a voice with a clean, harmonic rich sound.
Bruno keeps the finest tops for years, waiting for the right instrument. Nothing is painted over. The chambers are carved so the wood itself keeps vibrating, so what you hear is the tree as much as the build.
“A rare top is not a decoration. It is the voice, waiting to be freed.”
The Respiro body is hollowed into chambers shaped over 400 hours of study, lifting resonance and dropping weight.
The Soffio is semi-hollow, with sound holes of an original Bacci shape, for a more acoustic, velvet response.
Olive, walnut, maple and spruce tops on a mahogany or ash body, chosen for voice and grain, never colour.
A full guitar voice and a dedicated bass voice from a Modern Bass capsule, each with its own jack.
A longer scale holds the low note as a note, with pickups chosen for the baritone register.
Never painted. The wood is left on display, so what you see and hear is the tree.
Like every Leonardo baritone, the Art of Nature has two outputs. A full guitar voice, and a dedicated bass voice from a Modern Bass capsule on the three low strings, with its own volume and its own jack.
Send them to a guitar amp and a bass amp at once, and one player fills the room. The chambers give the acoustic breath, the second output gives the low end. Run an octave pedal on the bass voice and it sounds as if it were born for it. Bruno’s three words for it: fat, involving, unforgettable.
At first the baritone confuses you, and that confusion moves the synapses. You are not off balance, you are finding a balance you have never used. You already know how to walk. This is learning to walk a rope, and when the studying breaks, the hands go on their own.
And because it is not built in anyone else’s image, it leaves room for yours.
“The cello is the baritone of the classical instruments.” Bruno Bacci
Every Art of Nature is built by hand, one at a time, by the maker who chose the wood. A top of rare Italian olive, walnut, maple or spruce is read, matched to a neck, chambered, and tuned as one instrument.
It is not a challenge, it is an inspiration. What is life without the curiosity to discover something you don’t already know? That is my main mantra.
Matteo Mancuso took the Respiro Olivo to the NAMM stage, and the clips traveled. One baritone doing the work of two.
When I play it, I don’t really miss the bass player.
Matteo Mancuso
Cenk Erdogan plays the Respiro in walnut. A microtonal player who spends his life between frets, he reaches for the baritone when a piece needs more than one register at a time.
The Tosca is a beautiful guitar. The baritone is an orchestra.
Not endorsements bought by the year. Players who found the instrument, kept it, and put it on record.
The Bacci Experience™ is offered to only four people a year. You join Bruno for the final stages of the build in his Tuscan workshop, then a dinner under the pergola and a local guide through Florence, Lucca and Pisa.
The reveal comes last: your instrument waits under red velvet, your song begins, Bruno lifts the cloth, and you are the first person ever to play it.
“I’m so happy with the experience here with Bruno that I would have been happy even without the instrument.”
The line exists to show the wood. A colour would hide the grain and mute the acoustic behaviour of the chambers. The finish is natural, so you see and hear the tree.
Respiro is a hollow body with hidden tonal chambers and no sound holes, lighter and very resonant. Soffio is semi-hollow with Bacci shaped sound holes, more acoustic and velvet, with a softer attack. Same fine tops, two voices.
Yes. Like every Leonardo baritone it carries a guitar output and a dedicated bass output, so you can run a guitar amp and a bass amp at once.
They are fine Italian woods, olive, walnut, maple and spruce, selected for voice and grain. A rare top can cost up to EUR 20,000 on its own before any building begins.
Each instrument is built to order by hand. Reserve your place and Bruno’s team will confirm the current lead time, the configuration and the terms.
A short, hand picked network of shops keeps Bacci on the wall.
Go and play one in person, or start a custom build directly with Bruno in Tuscany.
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Nothing here is in stock, and nothing ever will be.
Every instrument is claimed by one player before the first cut.
A €1,000 deposit holds your place at the bench and sets the work in motion. It comes off the price in full.
Woods, pickups, finish, decided one by one, together. The instrument is drawn around you.
The balance falls due once the specification is closed. Eight months later, it is in your hands.
Not sure which instrument is yours?
Ask before you commit.