{"id":1757,"date":"2017-05-31T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.italianstories.it\/blog\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2017-05-31T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:07:23","slug":"eugenio-ligato-a-guitar-in-my-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.italianstories.it\/blog\/eugenio-ligato-a-guitar-in-my-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenio Ligato: a guitar in my hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post by Italian Stories<\/a> | from our book MANI<\/a><\/p>\n

Many people that walk into my shop<\/a> ask me whether I am the one who builds the musical instruments on display. “Yes, I do it,” I reply. Yet I often read uncertainty in their eyes. In fact, the following question is almost always: “How?”<\/h2>\n

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I grew up in a house with few musical instruments but full of music. When I first embraced a guitar I was 16 years old, and I felt so grateful and fulfilled that I promised myself that I would never do without all that beauty.<\/p>\n

When I had just finished high school I came across the \u201cCivica Scuola di Liuteria di Milano\u201d (Civic School of Violin Making in Milan), and there I began my journey into the world of violin making<\/a>. I learned to maintain a balance between traditional craftsmanship and the implementation of machinery to optimize production time.<\/p>\n

Right after graduating I returned to Cosenza, where the ups and downs of self-employment flooded me with a load of sleepless nights and projects to finish in my shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Today my guitar shop<\/a> is my world. I spend days immersed in the scent of the wood, which I always request of highest quality. It is in fact the \u201craw material\u201d that makes a handmade musical instrument special, and choosing the right wood, piece by piece, is one of the most beautiful parts of my work.<\/h2>\n

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When I introduce myself to the people who come to visit me I explain that being a luthier is not a hobby but a real job where you have no room to improvise: initially, you need a guide to teach you how to “tirar di scalpello” (hold and pull a chisel), but also how to acknowledge the different types of wood, the chemistry, the physics and, not least, the history.<\/p>\n

Then I explain that the luthier <\/a>is, first and foremost, a craftsman but also a botanist, a carpenter, a physicist, a chemist and an engineer. All this, however, must be moved by one single word: “passion”.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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