The Fearless Flyers · funk
Cory Wong
plays Bacci.
The tightest rhythm hand in modern funk played the first Bacci baritone ever made. Clean, percussive, locked to the drums, with a low end that moves the whole room.
The tightest rhythm hand in modern funk played the first Bacci baritone ever made. Clean, percussive, locked to the drums, with a low end that moves the whole room.
Cory Wong — of the Fearless Flyers, a Vulfpeck collaborator and one of the most recognisable rhythm guitarists in modern funk — played the very first Bacci baritone, a Fiesta Red, before anyone else.
His style is all groove and space: muted sixteenth-note chops, dynamics, a rhythm part that carries a whole band. On a baritone that pocket gains weight and grit while staying razor-defined.
He has since been seen with several Bacci baritones, including the Officina Tuscan Red and the Officina Bosco, the instrument he calls, on stage at NAMM, the “funk machine.”
Cory’s world lives on the Officina solid-body baritone: percussive, dynamic, and tuned tight so every chop stays clear.
Solid alder body, bolt-on neck, voiced for a familiar feel with baritone weight. Made to your scale and pickups. Explore Officina →
“Cory Wong playing the Bacci baritone funk machine.”Cory Wong, NAMM 2024
Cory Wong playing the Bacci baritone funk machine for a stupendous eleven seconds.
Cory Wong, NAMM 2024 jamBruno Bacci’s baritone guitars have been inspiring a whole generation of top guitar players, including Cory Wong, Mark Lettieri and Matteo Mancuso. With this, he’s part of developing a whole new musical canon.
Jamie Gale, Boutique Guitar ShowcaseThis is a funk machine. It nails the baritone funk rhythm sound.
Mark Lettieri, on the Bacci Officina baritone
Bruno Bacci is a Tuscan luthier with a background in metallurgy, woodworking and design. A guitarist first, he became a builder after a hand injury and trained at the violin-making school of Cremona, where Stradivari had worked three centuries earlier.
He does not begin with a shape. He begins with the sound he wants to hear and builds the instrument around it, testing each piece of wood by hand as though in conversation with it. Every Bacci is made individually and is backed for life by Bruno himself.
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▶Yes. Cory Wong played the first-ever Bacci baritone, a Fiesta Red, and has been seen with Officina baritones including Tuscan Red and Bosco.
The Officina solid-body baritone: tight, percussive and dynamic, ideal for muted funk chops with weight.
A baritone is a guitar with a longer scale length, roughly 27″ and up, tuned lower than standard, usually B to B or A to A. You play it exactly like a guitar, it simply lives in a deeper register between guitar and bass.
Most players tune B to B, a fourth below standard, or A to A. Every Bacci is built to your preferred scale, gauge and tuning.
No. The chord shapes and technique are identical, just on a slightly longer neck. Most guitarists feel at home within minutes.
A single baritone with two independent outputs, guitar and bass, so one player can deliver both voices at the same time, live and in the studio. Read the Dual Output Story.
Every Bacci is handbuilt to order in Tuscany, made to your scale, strings, pickups and finish. Join the waiting list to start your build.
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A €1,000 deposit holds your place at the bench and sets the work in motion. It comes off the price in full.
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The balance falls due once the specification is closed. Eight months later, it is in your hands.
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