page_title: Tonante
section_title: Models
hierarchical_section_title: Tonante / Models
caption_attribution_description: A Tonante guitar.
context_page_description: Tonante, initially called Ao Rei dos Violões Limitada, is a Brazilian guitar manufacturing company founded in 1954 by the Portuguese brothers Abel and Samuel Tonante, who artisanelly built musical instruments, thirteen years after their arrival in the country.
  Tonante is well known for making highly affordable stringed instruments in Brazil, together with companies such as Giannini, Del Vecchio and Di Giorgio. Tonante's range of products include electric and acoustic guitars, banjos and cavaquinhos.
context_section_description: Guitar models manufactured by Tonante includes:
  Finder –a cheap mix between a Fender Stratocaster and a Fender Jazzmaster
  Various cavaquinhos, mandolins and acoustic guitars.
  Erton –a Fender Stratocaster copy
  Starlight –a heavy metal guitars with a vibrola system derived from the Floyd Rose and three single coil pickups. Body similar to Finder
  Les Paul –a flat top Gibson Les Paul copy
  Banjos, acoustic guitars and cavaquinhos
caption: Tonante Finder, inspired on Fender models
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