PICS AND INFO ON A FEW NOTABLE EVENTS

5/23/2006 - Copacabana Guitar launch at design hotel KlausK in Helsinki. The image shows the worlds first, newly made Copa #001 (owner: Antti Kallio). Since the logo was remade after launch, the first two Copas were redone at the shop...

Jukka Tolonen was present demonstrating the guitar to quite a few members of the press. Later that evening both major Finnish news broadcasts showed the birth of the worlds first design guitar. The interest seems to be keeping strong to this day.

4/16/2007 - The Copacabana guitar #003 went abroad. A.J. Kallio from the Finnish guitar association Plectra traveled to New York with his partners and presented a gift to Conan O'Brien who is widely known for his guitar enthusiasm. True to form, Conan performed an impromptu concert to the TV-crew present. This was was aired on the Finnish MTV3 channel and also shown on its news broadcast. This meeting was also publicized by the Finnish press.

Watch the Copa segment of MTV3's show 45-minutes