ORIGINAL PLANS

For the past year, Eastman’s Romeo has been its best-selling electric guitar, but in conversation with Pepijn ‘t Hart (international sales & product manager, Guitar & Mandolin Division) we discover its birth was rather delayed. “Originally, Otto D’Ambrosio had intended Romeo to be the most ergonomic jazz guitar for jazz players, but since the jazz world is not the biggest market out there I was a little doubtful,” he tells us from his Netherlands base. “This was around 2017/2018, when we’d begun work on the project.

“Then, for some reason, the workshop in Beijing