I am so happy with my new Conti! Every aspect of it is perfect from headstock to tailpiece. All top quality components. The neck is amazing and the set up and string gauges are superb. The included case is better than I expected as it is a hard gig bag that offers great protection while still being lightweight. The company was great to work with, and the personal video from Robert is something I will keep forever. I’ve been a professional guitarist for 50 years and this is the finest guitar I’ve ever owned. Top shelf quality at a very reasonable price. Can’t thank you enough!! www.robgoldsmithguitar.com
7 Year Update:
Flawless with super low action. The ebony fingerboard is as smooth as glass. This guitar practically plays itself. It's been 7 years since I purchased them, and they still amaze me every time I pick one up and play!
Original 2017 Comments:
The new Conti Entrada model is truly an amazing guitar! I should know as I am now the lucky owner of the exact guitar Mr. Conti is playing in the new video demo. Thanks to Mr. Conti and Mike in the sales office for making this possible. I received the guitar on the date scheduled in excellent condition. I was in total awe when I pulled it from the deluxe gig bag. The new Conti Gold Finger tailpiece upgrade was worth every penny as this guitar is drop dead gorgeous! It was set-up perfectly. All I had to do was tweak the tuning and play. The thin lightweight body resonates surprisingly well and the ebony fingerboard and slim neck makes playing this guitar almost effortless. Suddenly those difficult jazz chord grips were now easy. In my 38 years of playing guitar professionally, and having owned over 200 guitars, some costing 3-4 times what this sells for, I honestly have to say this is the finest guitar I have ever owned period! Give this baby a try. You will not regret it.
My best to Mr. C, it's refreshing to have a guitarist of his skills and stature take the time to advance the skills of other guitarists. The lessons are a bargain when compared to the thousands I spent on private instruction. Again, Thanks. And I will spread the word to my fellow guitarists here in the New Orleans area. I hope Mr. Conti makes an appearance here sometime in the not too distant future. I would love to hear him live and perhaps meet him personally. I am 58, been playing offand on for over forty years, currently retired and wanting to become the guitarist I always thought I could be. This looks to be a step inthe right direction.
I am finally getting a chance to work with Mr Conti’s excellent instruction. It’s great stuff!
I’m very impressed with the product I’m enjoying playing again after years of modes!
My Entrada arrived in Alaska in perfect shape after only 4 days, and was packed perfectly. This guitar is a lush beauty; a pleasure to play, hold, or just look at. The action is fantastic and the neck plays fast and easy. I chose the double pickup model because the band I play in plays a wide variety of music from standards, to western swing, blues, country and rock. I think this instrument will work beautifully for any of it.
You can practice unplugged if you want, but it really comes alive and sounds beautiful when plugged in. I only wish I could play it like Robert did in the video! Wow, what a great feature to get a personalized video from Robert with some tasty music and an explanation of the features! The customer service with Mike, Steve, and Robert was all fantastic from beginning to end, and made me trust that what I was getting was going to be a superb instrument. It truly is! I’ve been enjoying playing it every day, and feeling lucky to have found a new source of inspiration.
Dear Robert Conti Team.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to provide feedback.
It‘s only a few weeks that I‘ve started with the course, but I like it very much. For the first time with jazz courses, I have the impression of making music, playing jazz - despite my small talent - and that‘s a lot of fun. It‘s like what Robert said: you start with little bits, measure by measure just like learning a language using more and more words. Eventually you start playing and experimenting with these bits and develop further - and grow.
Thanks for offering me this opportunity and great experience after having put aside my guitar for over 3 decades.
Vera
This is a great guitar! It is as advertised and then some. It is right up there with the best I own and play, regardless of price – this is #54 for me…how many guitars do you need, anyway? The answer is always, “just one more”
This was a 2 pickup Entrada that had undergone some damage to the body – expertly repaired, with no effect on its playability or long-term durability – I have to look close to see where. As all my guitars have dings, scratches, etc. on them from playing and my clumsiness, I had no hesitation in buying it and I’m glad I did. It really is “like new” to my eyes. It arrived set up perfectly, I needed to do absolutely nothing! The intonation was perfect. It has a very nice, sweet tone and is as easy to play as the best of my other guitars. The pictures on-line are nice but the guitar in-person is even better! It is my very first Conti and it is all too likely it will not be my last!
I can’t speak highly enough of the whole buying process and the customer service. It is top-notch and unequalled by any other guitar company I have dealt with over the decades. A wonderful personal touch is the video from Robert Conti playing my guitar prior to sending it out, as well as the follow-up call from Mike a few hours after delivery to ensure everything was satisfactory. Thanks for making a quality guitar available direct, at a reasonable price. It’s a keeper and a real value!
Great books!!! I purchased it again, because I thought I lost my Chord Melody Assembly Line book due to revamping our/my music man cave. Great book!!!. I have learned many things, and I go through it for a refresher course from time. to time.
This book addresses the weakest area of my playing, and I was determined to get my money's worth. Well, it really does and I really am. More than just intros/endings/turnarounds, it makes great chord study. I've found that the material gives me ideas for comping block-chord soloing and opens my ears up for single-note soloing as well! All I need to do is drop the root notes, or even the chords to get stuff I could play with a full band behind me. And everything in the book is inspiring me to be creative and improvise! Thank you for inspiring me to get out of a rut and making the guitar fun again. Your book on Intros is really a great Intro to Robert Conti! Right now, I'm looking at your other products for something else that looks fun and useful, and hope to catch you live next time I'm back home in the States.
I live in Melbourne Australia and have played all my life (in the blues x Santana style mix). Now as a 69 year old guy i have finally made some progress into the elusive bebop/jazz sound that i have wished all my life to both understand and play. I received your 'Jazz Lines' DVD/Book last week and have only had 2 days to try it out. I was a bit daunted to see you adding a fair bit of maths (my old 'can't do well' problem area). So after a try at your 1a and 1b licks and explanations I took a sneak look at the 7a first 3 bars and the sky lit up for me. Just with those 3 smaller licks in heaps of positions I have the whole neck singing in 5-6 hours-can't believe it. 2 chord shapes (plus lots of inversions of the same) and I am so excited to finally see my all time favourite Major 7th sound becoming a tool I can go any where with -so long as i am faithfully maintaining or heading to the key centre. I am overjoyed to be always playing the right notes (at long last) and nailing chord tones constantly. My heartfelt thanks to you Robert for turning my hopes and wishes into an exciting new reality and I am aware that 2 days of your lessons doesn't sound like much but after adding only a little bit of your simplified yet powerful knowledge to my usual tool kit I am a duck that's finally found a pond to swim in. Your skills have given me wings -Thank you very much Robert, I am so incredibly happy to finally be playing the sounds I have always loved to listen to.
Mr. Conti teaches like you are in the green room of a jazz club in 1960. He cuts right to the chase. No bullshit. I now see brilliant II V I licks right under my fingers. Upper structure chords that give you that "playing outside" sound. Three lessons have completely redirected my playing to sound like a legit jazz cat. Mr. Conti is a living legend so why not learn from the best
Thank you for the great products! I have learned more from your materials than any other source…or even all of the others combined. After listening to your DVDs I start speaking in an accent even!
Here's a nice little chord melody version of Fly me to the moon that I put together using ideas from your Formula book.
I would like to thank Mr. Conti for all of his products. I own four of his Source Code books, all of the ticket to improv, and two of the chord melody DVD's and I'll be purchasing more in the near future. My guitar has never sounded so good!
I have bought many of Roberts. Dvds and without doubt he is the best instructor and as helped me to become solo guitarist playing wedding and various gigs john
Hi I found Robert Conti’s DVD/book ChordMelody Assembly Line is exactly what I wanted all along and just stumbled upon it. I could talk about it at length it is so perfect - plenty of work but the effort is well rewarded, and my playing and understanding has grown dramatically as a result of his book.
Excellent transaction and a great product - I love its function and the added glitz it gives to the guitar. I took off the Bigsby that was on my Gretsch 6636T and it compliments the instrument very very well ... this guitar is now my new ES 335 and fits me way better than my actual ES 335.
I am slowly working on it and it’s a lot of fun. I am pulling the lines into my own sound. What I like about Robert’s lessons are that they are about playing, not exercises.
I give Robert a 5 star review or more--I have been a performer and guitar teacher for over 60 years [past school band director]--now run a music studio [over 140 students] my own band for many years -- Robert has put in a lot of accurate and hard work on his method----a great player and teacher -- the best I have come across----I am working on all of his methods - i highly recommend his course -- I hope Robert ---and all his would be students read this--thanks
Wow thanks for the ticket to improv! Looking forward to it and the Assembly Line. I have a stack of books sitting on the shelf but this looks like a real winner / real deal
The string set is perfect for my guitar. Switching from heavier gauge chromes, these strings are articulate and dynamic and easier on my fingers, which allows longer playing time. As round wounds, they squeak more than flat wounds, but it’s a trade off for longer playing time without burning finger tips.
