Catania Carmelo 1967

1967 Italian luthier made jazz/parlor No4 guitar.

Italian made /jazzparlor from Naples region. Spruce top with plywood sides and back, 640mm scale length with 44mm nut.

Body dimensions 475mm length, 350mm and 265mm bouts and 75mm depth. 

String action height currently 1st-string 3.0mm and 6st-string 3.3mm.

Back has 2 hairline cracks repaired. Guitar has new frets installed.

Catania had started working on mandolins, learning the ropes of his trade very early in life in Naples: he gleaned the secrets of the Neapolitan school of string instrument making and repair, and founded his own company in 1936. After the Second World War, the “Primaria Fabbrica di strumenti musicali a corda Carmelo Catania” recorded a sharp increase in business, peaking at 10,000 instruments sold a year, ranging from the professional to the beginner.