Type V Munus Primarium: Cithara Electrica Itineraria by Vladimir Shorin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Instrumentum Musicum Competition Category.
ArgentumInstrumentum Musicum· 2022
Type V Munus Primarium: Cithara Electrica Itineraria
Client: 2A instruments
Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Instrumentum Musicum Category
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The Design
About Type V Munus Primarium: Cithara Electrica Itineraria
Type V est cithara electrica itineraria ad exercitationem et compositionem in multis locis destinata. Corpus leve pondere 2,49 chiliogrammatum stat et ludum commodum permittit sive stando, sive sedendo, sive in lecto reclinato. Corpus solidum e ligno Sapeli, cervix quinque partibus ex acere et Sapeli composita, tabula frettarum ebenina et frettae ex adamantino ferro flabellatim dispositae sustinent sonum diu perseverantem et tonos claros. Instrumentum extensae amplitudinis viginti quattuor frettas habet, pontem sine capite fixum atque colorem nigrum sine nitore. Forma a levibus figuris navium celocum et aeroplanorum ducitur.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum
Type V Munus Primarium: Cithara Electrica Itineraria victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Type V Munus Primarium: Cithara Electrica Itineraria opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Type V Munus Primarium: Cithara Electrica Itineraria creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Lightweight and ergonomic, one can take it wherever one likes to practice or where one gets inspiration to compose some beautiful melodies. The body shape allows comfortably playing in a various range of positions, while standing, seating, even leaning back on a sofa. It's sonic delivery bases on a careful wood and pickup selection as well as structural features, providing long sustain and clear tones. This extended range guitar offers great playing experience in many different styles.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 815mm height x 280mm width x 45mm depth (body) 2,49kg weight
Sapeli solid body. Maple/Sapeli 5 piece neck. Ebony fretboard. Stainless steel fanned frets. Fokin Uppercut bridge pickup. Nova headless fixed bridge/headpiece. 24 frets. 25,5-27' scale. Matte black finish. Anchor access from the side of the neck pickup - Tags
- guitar, electric guitar, guitar design, travel guitar, electric guitar design, extended range guitar
- Production Technology
- The design started from concept sketches on a blank paper and continued with full scale drawings, CAD drawing, prototyping from extruded polystyrene foam, prototyping from MDF, and the fabrication with a CNC machine. Finally it has been manually painted, polished and assembled.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge was to achieve an accurate balance between attractive futuristic shape and functional characteristics of the musical instruments, and finally get it build precisely according the concept.
- Research
- Though being a huge guitar enthusiast throughout the years I've never thought about designing one. This project demanded a deep research in various aspects of electric guitars in order to reach maximum comfortable playability, sound specifications, ergonomics and last but not least - manufacturability. From analyzing traditional shapes to studying contemporary trends in the guitar industry and spending countless hours to search for any kind of relevant information, the process took it's time. But due to the positive feedback from fellow musicians it was worth it.
- Inspiration
- The guitar design based on both ergonomic body properties and shapes of vessels such as yachts or jets which smooth gliding on the waves or soaring high above evokes a feeling of absolute freedom just like our favorite music.
- Project Duration
- The project started in the Fall of 2018 and finished in Summer of 2019. It has been developed in Moscow, Russia
- Operation Flow
- Use it with headphone amplifier or a powerful guitar stack, just the way you like to play music.
- Image Credits
- Video Credits: Filmed and edited by Den Mukhin, playthrough by Michail Semkov, music by Idols to Be Faded, all copyrights belong to Idols To Be Faded
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