Many people do not know me, some only by name, others through the guitars they have bought or simply seen, yet others because they have visited the website.
Some I know very well and these I would call my friends.


But everyone knows that I am not fond of talking about myself – of saying who I am, of defining myself.
It is neither an affectation nor a matter of principle, I simply have no wish to do so. Speaking always seems to me to be an impoverishment, something that misses the point. While attempting to communicate I seem to be achieving exactly the opposite. The tendency common to all is to simplify in order to understand, rather than encouraging oneself to grow so as to better understand the complex.
It is much better to define who one is by means of what one does and says and how one acts, rather than the reading of a simple list of facts. Since however this is a website, here goes!
I hope that I can get over this particular obstacle without boring anyone to death!

My study of the guitar began at the age of twelve under the guidance of Roberto Lambo and continued under Linda Calsolaro upon entering the Bari Conservatory of Music.
The final three years of my studies were completed at the Castelfranco Veneto Conservatory with Stefano Grondona, graduating with top marks.
Both during my studies and after I taught and performed, but one year after graduation, for purely existential reasons, I embarked upon the long road to becoming a guitar maker and gradually shifted all my activity towards the building of guitars until it became my sole occupation.

Over the years I have had the opportunity to study and analyse the guitars of the most famous Spanish guitar makers, Santos Hernandez, Francisco Simplicio, Enrique Garcia, Manuel Ramirez, Vicente Arias, José Ramirez, José Romanillos and non-Spaniards Hermann Hauser and David Rubio, until I first came across Antonio de Torres’ instruments.
Here my research for a point of reference stopped and from Torres’ guitars my own personal development took on its actual shape and consciousness.

At the moment I live and work in Ponte in Valtellina, a small village surrounded by mountains in the Province of Sondrio.

If you have Google Earth installed on your computer you will be able to find my workshop using this bookmark.
If you click here, however, you will find the location of my workshop with Google Maps.
The full address is:


Luca Waldner
Via Ginnasio, 23
23026 Ponte in Valtellina
Sondrio - Italy
Tel:        +39 340 7752521

VAT number: 00785070145
CF: WLDLCU65S19G224W
You can find me in MySpace, too.

Ponte in Valtellina is reachable through Trenitalia with the line Milano-Sondrio-Tirano, and through the Swiss Ferrovia Retica, with the line St.Moritz-Tirano.
It's also reachable by car:

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from Switzerland: