Category:Bartolini (guitar brand)

See also categories: Bartolini Pickups and Electronics and Bartolini, Inc. – for an American bass pickup brand since 1978 by Bill & Pat Bartolini.

• Bartolini (in Italian). fetishguitars.com (2014-02-27).
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  "​The Bartolini company was come up in 1955, with Alvaro leaving from F.lli Bartolini company [Fratelli Bartolini ?]. At the beginning, the production was entirely focused on the accordion, until the demand for electric guitars led Alvaro Bartolini producing the first samples designed with Benito Cingolani at the beginning of 1960. / The ways, however, were separated before the product launch; Cingolani took away samples from the laboratory of Bartolini for starting its own production. The laboratories were located in the Castelnuovo district 500 meters apart. / In 1961, after the design and put into production, he began marketing in Italy, while the first overseas sale was made in Germany in February of '62 through the exclusive importer HANS ULLMANN in Hamburg. He exported directly with BAR brands, BARTOLINI ALVARO, BARONET in France, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, USA, Mexico, Switzerland, Sweden, Algeria and Spain. "]

• Gemelli - Umberto e Benito Cingolani (in Italian). fetishguitars.com (2014-03-10).
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  "​At the beginning of the year 1960, the onset of the accordion crisis, Bartolini Alvaro brought to realize the first samples of guitars and basses designed with Benito Cingolani. The design and pre-production were started towards the end of 1960 in view of a new company that would see the light in companies between Bartolini and the brothers Umberto and Benito Cingolani. The ways, however, were divided before the product launch and the Cingolani took away samples from the laboratory Bartolini for starting its own production. (Photos of the prototypes Bartolini/Cingolani from the archive of L. Biasibetti: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3) ... / The brothers Umberto and Benito Cingolani produced for a large number of brands including: ANDANTE, AVANTI, BALEANI, CARINI (CONTINENTAL-BOUVIER), D’SCALA, DIAMOND-RANGER, GIANNA, G.B., HOPF, JACKSON, MARINUCCI, MORESCHI, TOMBO, VIVONA "]