Verso Musical Instruments reimagines the electric guitar, with Cosmo, an utterly simplified, minimalist design, handcrafted with a body made of bent steel
‘I asked myself whether the electric guitar would reach this point of becoming something universal through maximum simplification,’ he says. ‘I don’t claim to have succeeded, but that was my intention for the project.’ The form is utterly dictated by the function. ‘The simplest electric guitar basically requires only a rod on which strings are tensioned,’ Stummvoll explains. ‘I was very inspired by the guitars of Allan Gittler , German luthier Ulrich Teuffel, and the one-string Solitaire model by Nobuaki Hayashi.’
‘However, this also results in an extreme sensitivity, which is not only advantageous in the distorted range. To a certain extent it sounds very powerful and rich in harmonics, but at a point in the high-gain range it becomes exhausting. You can hear everything with a lot of gain – every shirt button that hits the body.’
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