In a musical performance the instrument is part of an artistic event, which involves a collaboration of different individuals: the composer, the luthier and the player. Each of them contributes with his own work and personal sensitivity to give life to an artistic event which in turn reaches the spirit of the listener.


The instrument must be created with this goal in mind: choice of woods, special building techniques, aesthetics, and so on will all become part of a synthesis of the spirit through the material, to produce a work of art in itself. So the instrument is an artistic expression of the maker, and at the same time it is a mean with which another work of art can be expressed.

Even given all this, one still needs to avail oneself of the philology and the study of old instruments: not so much to reproduce instruments that have already been perfectly realised by others and that have lived and continue to live their glorious existence, as to recover and understand, by means of going back, the lost sensibility and thought that was originally behind them, as well as to continue along the path already started by others, enriching it with our own contribution.