NON SENZA RAGIONE, VISTO CHE MOLTI NE PORTANO IL LOGO. MA SONO SEMPRE CONFUSI CON QUELLI DeLLA EKO. I SUOI STRUMENTI SONO PERÒ FRA I PIÙ INTERESSANTI. If it was not for the long gap of 1964 through 1972, one could say that Melody was Italy’s longest living guitar making company in modern times.įRA I COSTRUTTORI DI CHITARRE A BRILLANTINI APPARSI NELLA ZONA RECANATI/CASTELFIDARDO INTORNO AL 1961, MELODY È IL MENO CONOSCIUTO. Following Eko’s demise in 1983 its production manager Remo Serrangeli joined Melody, which remained in activity until 1988. Ironically, Melody managed to survive longer than its ex-parent company Eko.
Then the electrics evolved more and more towards perfect copies of Gibson and Fender models, just like Gherson was doing at the same time.
Independent again, Melody dedicated itself to developing models of its own, mainly flat top acoustics that show a very strong and very logical influence from Eko. From 1969 on the Melody name was sporadically revived as a sub-brand of Eko to liquidate inventories of unsold instruments.įinally, Eko withdrew in 1972 from the company’s capital. Melody instruments were rebadged with an Eko logo, then the company manufactured virtually only Eko products. Melody became for all practical purposes an Eko subsidiary. In 1964-65 a powerful shareholder joined the company, Oliviero Pigini and his Eko group, who were looking for additional production capacities. Melody introduced as soon as 1963 a neck adjustment system which was just like the “ Micro Tilt Neck” patented by Fender seven years later! There were very skilled people in the company. Melody guitars from the sixties first half shared mostly the same hardware, electronics and general design as the early Crucianelli, Welson and especially Bartolini / Gemelli electrics, except that they never had any zero-fret - which was the right thing to do. As a whole, a well experienced team in guitar making. Founding associates were: Stellio Pescetti, Mr Gerio (ex-accountant of the Marinucci company), Giuliano Gurini (formerly of Marinucci), Fernando Piatti (previously of La Clavietta, a subsidiary of Marinucci), and Mr Branko Kapitanovec, a Yugoslav citizen who came from Eko (which reminds us of the relationship Eko’s founder Oliviero Pigini had with the Slovenian maker Melodija Mengeš back in the 50′s). The Melody company was set up in 1961 in Potenza Picena, a small town only six miles from Recanati. NOT WITHOUT REASON, SINCE MANY OF THEM WEAR AN EKO LOGO. THEIR INSTRUMENTS ARE AMONG THE MOST INTERESTING THOUGH. AMONG THE SPARKLE CELLULOID GUITAR MAKERS WHO STARTED IN THE RECANATI/CASTELFIDARDO AROUND 1961, MELODY IS THE LEAST KNOWN.
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