EKO - Recanati - - Classical guitar - Italy - 1960

Eko 12-string guitar, Studio model, built in Recanati

Made in Italy

6 strings

In excellent condition.

Spruce top

Back and sides in maple

Neck in maple stained black

Special details around the sound hole and along the edge of the soundboard.

White pickguard

Dimensions

Total length: 980 mm

Body length: 470 mm

Body depth: 85 mm

Internal label:

Eko

Guitars

Studio model

Original Eko guitar built in Recanati by the finest Italian artisans

Made in Italy

History:

Eko (today Algam Eko) is a guitar manufacturer and, above all, an importer of guitars and other musical instruments and electronics. It was founded in 1959 by Oliviero Pigini in Castelfidardo, Marche. The factory moved production to the municipality of Montelupone in 1965. Among the musicians who used the company’s instruments are the Rokes, the Kings, the Nomadi, the New Dada, and Edoardo Bennato. In Eko’s facilities, guitars with the English Vox brand were also produced. Its logo, which has changed over the years, has always represented a stylization of the three letters of the company name.

The 2000s

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At the beginning of the new millennium, alongside import activity and branding, there was a project to resume production, through in-house research and development, relocating it elsewhere, with worldwide agreements for distribution of products under the company’s own brand and under other brands. The name Eko, known at the consumer level, thus enabled joint ventures with companies in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Romania, Spain and China, for local production of instruments and import of other brands, especially electronics (one example being E-mu Systems, the first Emulator samplers that pushed interconnection between personal computers and music)[4]. This activity took years, and materialized at the end of the first decade, when what is called Eko Music Group, which distributes 60 international brands in Italy, resumed production, also acquiring other companies[2].

After 2015, the CEO decided to dedicate the Montelupone Italian plant — previously reacquired but used only as a headquarters for decades without machinery, tools, and even the projects and know-how — to assembly and national production for high value-added guitars. This was possible thanks to reworking historic designs and the involvement of new consultants, designers, and experts (such as Massimo Varini and Roberto Fontanot[5]). National production remains actually smaller than foreign production and imports. Eko later merged with Algam, forming Algam EKO[6].

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