Snarky Puppy · groove
Mark Lettieri
plays Bacci.
The Grammy-winning groove guitarist wrote a whole record in the low register, Deep: The Baritone Sessions, with the Bacci baritone.
The Grammy-winning groove guitarist wrote a whole record in the low register, Deep: The Baritone Sessions, with the Bacci baritone.
Mark Lettieri — Grammy-winning guitarist with Snarky Puppy and the Fearless Flyers — built Deep: The Baritone Sessions around the Bacci baritone, an entire body of work written for the instrument’s voice.
His playing is groove first: precise funk, cantabile melody, clean dynamic technique. On his Vintage White Officina baritone that becomes parts that are heavy and articulate at once. He calls it, simply, a funk machine.
It is the baritone as a compositional tool, not just a lower guitar.
Lettieri’s Vintage White is an Officina baritone, voiced for groove with a tight, defined bottom.
Solid, articulate, made to order in Tuscany. Explore Officina → · Layer a baritone with your guitar →
“This is a funk machine. It nails the baritone funk rhythm sound.”Mark Lettieri
This is a funk machine.
Mark Lettieri, on the Bacci Officina baritoneBruno 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 ShowcaseDeep: The Baritone Sessions was written around the voice of the Bacci baritone.
Bacci Guitars
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. Lettieri plays a Vintage White Officina baritone and wrote Deep: The Baritone Sessions around it.
A Mark Lettieri record written and recorded in the baritone register, built around the voice of the Bacci baritone.
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.
Commissions
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.
