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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Janelle Borg

“He once made a chicken walk on varnish, to transfer the prints of its feet onto the guitar's body”: The bizarre vintage guitar used in Italy's Eurovision entry has caught eyes all over the world

Lucio Corsi representing Italy performs during the rehearsal ahead of Semi Final Round 1 of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Opening Ceremony at Messe Basel on May 13, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland.

Anyone who caught the annual flamboyant spectacle that is Eurovision would have noticed the very off-kilter guitar played by Italy's representative, the almost-straight-out-of-the-’70s singer-songwriter and guitarist Lucio Corsi.

A couple of late-night deep dives later, and the search for this elusive electric guitar led to the late Antonio Vandrè Pioli – also known as Wandrè – who, between 1957 and 1968, crafted the part-psychedelic, part-futuristic guitars that found fans in Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, and even Ace Frehley.

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