Carlo Raspagni - guitar maker
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Carlo Filippo Raspagni was born on October 14, 1925 in Vignate (Milan) and died on August 30, 1999 in Vignate.
He was a pupil of his uncle Erminio Travi. Specialized in the construction of classical and folk guitars, mandolins, lutes, vihueles, baroque and Renaissance guitars and restorations of ancient and modern instruments. In his career he has built musical instruments for many song artists (Luigi Tenco, Adriano Celentano, Fabrizio De André, Giogio Gaber, Enzo Jannacci, Cochi & Renato, Lino Patruno, Caterina Valente, Tony Renis and Franco Mussida, to mention just a few). Many mandolin orchestras use his instruments: the Lugano (Switzerland) mandolin orchestra, for example, is made up of ninety percent of instruments by Raspagni. In 1984 a guitar, built with a maple case and a spruce table (therefore white, like the Pope's cassock, Raspagni used to say) was donated to Pope John Paul II.
In 1961 he obtained the 2nd prize at the Terni exhibition. Since 1982 he directed a school of violin making specialized for plucked instruments.
In 1966 he presented a guitar at the 2nd Modena Exhibition. He worked in Vignate.
The merit of Raspagni has been to study and build easy instruments to play, recovering the Italian violin making tradition, unique in its kind worldwide.
