Inspired Music

bagpipe construction

"Musica Inspirata" is the name of this site and of a workshop dedicated to the construction of wind instruments and in particular bagpipes.
Even before the notes sound, music gathers its vitality from the breath, a rhythm whose strength can be faintly felt.
Through inspiration, air flows into us and the bagpipe collects in the bag the substance needed to unfold harmony.
Beyond this, "Musica Inspirata" would like to point a finger to indicate a further horizon and another meaning, but this can only be a wish for our work and for all those who dedicate themselves with love to music.

Biography

It was the year 2000 when, for the first time, while listening to a recording of early music, I was struck by the sound of a bagpipe. Before the following year came to an end, I managed to find a good luthier, had an instrument made for me, and started playing it... well... "playing" it, so to speak, in my own way. Anyone with a bit of experience with these instruments, I think, knows what I mean. Bagpipe players all have their own particular language, but people who pick up the instrument for the first time universally have the same style, and you can hear it a mile away. I was no different. However, I was lucky enough to meet many good musicians over time and today I have been playing these instruments professionally for several years.

I believe my interest in making instruments was born the very day I got my hands on my first bagpipe. It is strange to note how these instruments often become attached to those who have a natural vocation for craftwork. I think it was the same for me, since a few months later, I was lucky enough to be taken on as an apprentice in the workshop of a French bagpipe maker. I will never stop thanking that good Master of mine. I learned to work with various natural materials, to understand the characteristics of different woods, to handle a multitude of tools, and most importantly, I realized that this work would accompany me for a long time to come.

Since then I have visited several workshops, both for bagpipes and zampogna, attended artistic turning courses, and started traveling in Italy, Germany, France, and England to listen to the instruments of these countries, understand their poetry, and lose myself among the endless artisanal skills of various luthiers. Since 2006, I have started to equip my own personal workshop and now, after a period of experimentation, I have decided to collect, in the following pages, the fruits of these years.

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