Great sleeper guitars! I have three and am retired, so downsizing to just the beat up one that I leave out. Originally called Favilla Bros., the company built guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, and violins. Categories Brands Shops Deals and Steals Price Drops 0 Financing New and Popular Handpicked Collections. USA made and built in New York by the Favilla family. was a family-run musical instrument company which produced quality string instruments for approximately 96 years until 1986. Solid Body Left-Handed Semi-Hollow Hollow Body 12-String Archtop Baritone Pedal Steel Tenor Lap Steel Mini/Travel Vintage Electric Guitars Bass Guitars. Has a translucent red finish all over that lets the pretty grain shine through, various small bumps and nicks along the top edge, a small ding on the back, a couple smaller than rice size depressions in the top, a few finish checks along the bottom edge of the bottom bout. Super sweet solid mahogany classical, folk or songwriter guitar. Height at 6th string at 12th fret is 3.5mm, 1st is 3mm. Low action with plenty of saddle showing. Top bout is 10 7/8 inches, bottom bout is 14 1/4 inches, neck is a comfortable flattened C shape, body is 4' deep at the bottom bout. Medium fret wires, no sharp ends, smooth neck. Rosewood fretboard and bridge, classical roller tuners all working well. I suspect Favilla supplied a fair number of anonymous instruments to the house-brand market starting in the pre-depression boom, but that's only suspicion. It would be interesting to see one by Favilla. Structurally sound, straight tight neck, and lots of saddle showing. Yeah, chitarra battente is a wire strung guitar with origins in the baroque, but still used as a folk instrument. Top and back, classical size and shape nylon string guitar. Circa 1960s Favilla nylon string guitar, Herk Favilla labelled.

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