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 Marco
D’Annibale was born in Nettuno (Rome) in 1957.
His passion for luthery came from his love for music. He started playing guitar as a boy experiencing various musical genres and distinguishing himself in the study of classical guitar. After various experiences as a self-made guitar maker he moved to Milan to improve his knowledge of traditional luthery and to carry out researches on the masters of the past at the “Civica Scuola di Liuteria”. In Milan he met M° Aldo Illotta with whom he soon established a relationship of friendship and collaboration. In fact his staying in Milan was spent between the study at the school and the work in Illotta’s laboratory. In 1999 he took part in the “International Luthery Prize” of Baveno (Italy), deserving the third place in the acoustic test with a copy of a 1890 Torres guitar.
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His
guitars are all hand made respecting the fundamental rules of traditional
luthery without utilizing modern industrial machines, from the gauging
of tops, backs and sides to the making of all other components such as
necks, bridges, binding and purfling channels and purfling rosette channels.
