Lute making as a hobby was the best precondition for leisurely and serious study and research on original instruments from various collections, and for experimenting with models and materials, free from marketing pressure. The result was that, when hobby finally turned to profession at the beginning of the 80s, my instruments were satisfactory enough to grant steady work ever since. After good ten years activity in Rome I moved to Bremen, only to close the circle for good, after seventeen fruitful years, retiring to Dekani, on the Slovenian coast, in the summer of 2009.
My instruments are regularly to be heard in concert, and in many recordings in the hands of artists like Pascale Boquet and Lynda Sayce, Stephen Player, Andrea Damiani, Stephen Stubbs, Lee Santana and Paul O’Dette, among many others, and under the quill of Claudia Caffagni (La Reverdie) in the magical world of medieval music. One particular honour is having my own version of the 11 course lute by Andreas Berr (Vienna, 1694), in the Ptuj museum in Slovenia, keeping company to the original by the great master, which served as model and inspiration.
