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In 1991 I restored the plucked instruments owned by the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan. After thatI restored the plucked instruments collection owned by the Museo Correr in Venice, and some of the instruments owned by the Conservatorio F.A. Bonporti in Trento - branch seat Riva del Garda. In 1998 I have restored a Neapolitan mandolone by “Donatus Filano, Napoli 1779” owned by the Museo dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

In 2005, for a private committent, I restored, with Bob Van de Kerckhove, a guitar by “Gennaro Fabricatore, Napoli 1811”. This guitar belonged to the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini, who was a very good guitar player.

In 2009, centenary of Futurism, I restored a guitar by “Gennaro Fabricatore, Napoli 1801”. This instrument belonged to Francesco Balilla Pratella, the founder of Musical Futurism.

I have teached Restauro Conservativo of plucked instruments, at Civica Scuola di Liuteria in Milan and at Scuola di Artigianato Artistico in Pieve di Cento - part of specialisation as Operatore Liutario Conservatore.

Since 2000 the Civica Scuola di Liuteria in Milan entrusted me for a course on Classic Guitar Construction.

My instruments are played in Europe, America and Japan.
Duilio Galfetti and Wolfgang Paul, of “Il Giardino Armonico”; Dorina Frati and Marco Capucci, of ”Ensemble Baschenis”; Luca Pianca; Victor Moser, of “La Volta” directed by Jürgen Hübscher and Mauro Squillante, have used my instruments to much recording.

I am often been invited to speak about mandolins at festivals (Villa Reale in Monza, Castello Sforzesco and Palazzo ai Giureconsulti in Milan, Casa Piccinni in Bari, Festival Internazionale di Mandolino in Varazze and so on).

The well-known composer and singer Fabrizio De Andrč commissioned me a copy of a genoese baroque mandolin, which he usually played in his public performances. Other artists plays and use my instruments: Angelo Branduardi, Africa United, Avion Travel, Mauro Pagani, Teresa De Sio, Roberto Vecchioni and Ian Anderson of Jetro Tull.