Meet the Maker: Andrea Tacchi

by Woodley White

Originally published in American Lutherie #110, 2012



Imagine building classical guitars in Florence, Italy, perhaps the most beautiful and best-preserved Renaissance city in the world. Firenze, as it’s called there, with its soft light and warm weather, nestled in the rolling hills of Tuscany along the River Arno, is a city that was home to legends such as Dante, Botticelli, Machiavelli, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Galileo, to name a few. The setting itself can take your breath away.

In this amazing architectonic center, Andrea Tacchi crafts classical guitars, honoring both past and present masters as he brings his own creativity and artistic talent to the work. His workshop is located on the second floor of the home built by his great-grandfather perhaps a mile from the Ponte Vecchio. Andrea lives in the Tuscan countryside with his wife and his son, Giovanni, and like thousands of other Florentines, commutes around town on his motor scooter.