The realisation of this new version of the website offers me the perfect opportunity to officially thank the many people who have helped me and continue to do so.


Special thanks above all to Antonio De Luca, an exceptional photographer and a wonderful person. He has taken all of the photographs on the site except the guitars in the Gallery section and is responsible for all the graphics and the slideshow.
It has been a lot of work but the results are highly gratifying, for which I am truly grateful.

Thanks also to Laura Albiero for the excellent if demanding interview and for her role as editor tidying up my Italian which doesn’t always flow as it might!

Thanks also to Paul Galbraith and to all the members of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet for their permission to use the music which accompanies the slide show: “Lundu”, by F. Mignone, from their CD “Essência do Brasil” (Delos DE 3245).

Thanks to the community of Linux, to the world of Free Software and Open Software, to Ubuntu distribution and the Italian Ubuntu community, as well as the various forums and virtual sites where it is possible to read guides and ask for help and assistance to learn how to set up a website. Thanks for the incredible work carried out, unselfish and with ideals completely unhampered by the logic of money and aimed at the diffusion of knowledge. They have taught and helped me to understand a great deal, also well beyond the discussion of this specific project.
In the same way my thanks go to Gaelle Guelton who resolved the problems of incompatibility between my site and Internet explorer 6 quite brilliantly.

Finally, thanks to all those who are close to me, to my parents Flavio and Cinzia, to my friends and indispensable “collaborators” for their testing and analysis of my guitars: Stefano Grondona, Laura Mondiello, Natale Petruzio. To my friends, for their psychological and human support in good times and bad – (their food is, after all, always excellent!) and who are especially good at putting up with me: Stefania Guiducci and Marzio Mercandelli, better known as GeM.


Finally, thanks to all the people and organisations with whom I have had contact throughout my life and who have helped me to grow. They are too numerous to name and perhaps the best way to thank them would be to cite the meaning of the African word Ubuntu:

I am what I am because of who we all are.