BIANCA SKY – (Family: Aquila Sky Guitar)
General Description:
The JEANNIE-BIANCA SKY prototype was built by Boris Dommenget for Uli in 2010. A true beauty, and a great sounding guitar, Uli has played it during many memorable shows.
Designed to combine the best qualities of a Sky Guitar with great sounding clarity of tone and elegant looks, these guitars command attention wherever you play.
Wood & Specs:
- Number of strings: 6
- Alder body
- Flamed maple neck
- Position markers: abalone stars
- Long scale (Strat style – 25.5 inches – 65 cm)
- Neck width at saddle: 4.5 cm
- Neck width towards bridge: 5.9 cm
- Neck join: Emperor
- Medium scalloped from 7th fret
- Number of frets: 37 (the top 5 frets are whole-tone steps, counting as 2 frets each – the amount differs between individual guitars)
- Super-Jumbo fret wire – smaller in the higher regions
- ABM super smooth floating tremolo with 3 gold-plated springsSound & Tone Engine:
- Mega-Wing III System with 18-volt power supply
- 3 pick-ups: (2 humbuckers & 1 single coil in the middle)
- 5 control knobs:
1) volume – 2) treble-range – 3) Mid-range – 4) bass-range – 5) master gain
- 5-way toggle switch
- 2 X humbucker-to-single coil switches
- Cyan Magic – 12 blue/turquoise lights with dimmerFinish & Colour:
- Overall appearance: gold theme
- Polyurethane
- Body: alpine white
Decoration &Symbols:
- 2 brass scratch plates, 24 Karat gold plated
- Sky Academy spiral symbol on body
- USG symbol on headstock
- Unique USG identification back plate, 24 Karat gold-platedExtras:
- Tronical Powertune Self-Tuning System
- Pick holder
- Black UJR Sky Guitar case with black velvet interior
Tone:
Bright, singing, three dimensional - Sky Guitar Type:
Aquila Sky
UJR with “Angelina” at Schloss Rietzneuendorf in 2011
With “Jeannie-Bianca” on the pool-deck at a very memorable 70 000 Tons of Metal Caribbean cruise
Performing “The Sails of Charon” with Chuck Billy and Elliott Rubinson
Playing Jeannie-Bianca at a classical concert at Kassel Stadthalle, Germany
With Pat McManus in France
Slash is taking a closer look at Jeannie-Bianca during a jam session in New Zealand
1st ever performance with “Jeannie-Bianca” at the Crossroads Festival in Hamburg, 2010
