Every Bacci model exists because something was missing. A sound, a feeling, a possibility no instrument could quite reach. Each one began with a question, and became Bruno’s answer.
Two independent outputs on one instrument: the low strings to a bass amp, the high ones to a guitar amp, at the same time. In the first five frets there are thirty notes that exist neither on a guitar nor on a bass. Cory Wong, Mark Lettieri, Matteo Mancuso and Ron Artis II each keep one within reach.
One baritone, three different souls. Officina borrows its colours from the garage, Parato brings back the warmth of the seventies, Art of Nature lets the wood speak for itself.
Passive by default, alive under the fingers, and stripped of everything that is not the sound. Four, five or six strings, thirty two or thirty four inches, and every neck voiced with the body it will live on. The bass Tim Lefebvre, Michael League and Marcus Miller reach for.
Michael League’s signature bass, and the first Bacci born from worm-eaten wood. Bruno saw in a material others would have discarded the chance to build an instrument that could sound like nothing else in the world.
Built to be pushed. Marlita pairs the raw power of an Aguilar 4P-HOT with the precision of four Hipshot Ultralites. Big response, steady hands, and a voice that holds its ground when the stage gets loud.
Seven finishes, one unmistakable detail. The shape of the worm-eaten wood becomes the pickguard inlay, framed by six different colours, or left entirely to the wood in Natural.
Natural
Cerino
Celeste
Ceruleo
Marine
Nero
White
Ten years spent removing everything that stood between wood and sound, eight prototypes, seven years alongside architect Eri Goshen. A hollow body reduced to its essential structure, and Kloppmann pickups created for the voice that emerged from it. Fifty instruments limited edition.
Maple, spruce or walnut. The choice goes beyond appearance: each wood changes the way Tosca resonates, responds and ultimately feels in your hands.
Maple
Spruce
Walnut
They are four different instruments, not four sizes of one. The Leonardo is the baritone with two outputs. The Marleo is the passive bass. The Marlita is the P bass in worm eaten wood, a limited edition. The Tosca is the fully hollow guitar. Start from the music you play, not from the shape you already know.
A Bacci takes eight months from the day the specification is closed. Before that there is the conversation, which takes as long as it takes: woods, pickups, scale and finish are decided one by one. Nothing is in stock and nothing ever will be.
That the instrument does not exist until someone asks for it, and that it is drawn around the person who asked. Not a catalogue item with a colour picked at the end: the neck is matched to the body, the scale to your hands, the pickups to the music you play.
One built in a set number, after which the model closes. On the Marlita the limit is not a marketing decision, it is the worm eaten wood, which has almost run out and cannot be ordered from anyone. On the Tosca it is the fifty numbered examples of that version.
Every Bacci carries a lifetime warranty from Bruno. He built it, so he is the one who answers for it.
