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An episode of the 1950s TV comedy I Love Lucy featured Vitameatavegamin, an elixir that purported to cure everything. As it turned out, Vitameatavegamin was mostly booze, which made it more fun than the average medicine, and made users feel better temporarily about, well, everything.

Like Vitameatavegamin, the LaVoce Z-Glide Custom from famed guitar designer Dean Zelinsky is designed to be a hydra-headed cure—one that can cure the need, or compulsion, to take multiple instruments to gigs. It offers true humbucking and single-coil tones, plus a “stage acoustic” sound generated via a bridge piezo pickup. The piezo tone can be blended into the single-coil and humbucking tones, or played separately. Thanks to the LaVoce’s stereo output jack, the conventional pickup and piezo tones can also be sent to separate amps if you chose to play in stereo—which is a cool option. But like Vitameatavegamin, the LaVoce has its plusses and minuses.

What’s terrific about this guitar is that it looks sharp, is well built, and is a joy to play. The slim body gives the guitar a light, sleek feel not unlike my Stratocaster. And at a gig, the test model’s gracefully arched solid mahogany body and flame maple top (in trans-wine finish with natural binding) was attractive enough to draw questions from musicians and civilians alike. Hardware including the GraphTech piezo-acoustic bridge, stop bar, pickup selector, and four nickel speed dials all look as substantial and efficient as they proved to be in practice. The 20:1 locking tuners are easy to grip and held steady as I changed from standard to open tunings and gave the strings a beating. Making adjustments to the humbucker/piezo mix and the output volume was smooth and easy. The sole exception was a small crackling sound that occurred every time I switched the coil tap between humbucking and single-coil modes.

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