Luca Centrone, Stefano Zanderighi and Marco Golinelli started their collaboration in 2001, a partnership which eventually brought them to the creation of the workshop "Liuteria d'insieme".
Former students of Tiziano Rizzi and Lorenzo Lippi in the production of musical instruments and of Gabriele Negri for restoration, their activity deals mainly with stringed instruments.
Liuteria d'insieme, thanks to the differents attitudes of then three luthiers, is active both in making instruments for early and contemporary music.
To realize the copy of historical instruments, the workshop makes use of techniques such as the three-dimensional survey of instruments preserved in private or public collections.
The collaboration with a number of museums has enabled the workshop to conduct analisys, three-dimensional surveys and photographic investigations over the last few years.
Studies on the original instruments are always up-to-date and this makes it possible to realize increasingly correct copies from a philological point of view. This is essential, especially for the instruments used to play early music.
In the field of original instrument reproduction, the workshop is active in iconographic research. Imagery from historic paintings is important to the reproduction of models which no longer exist, for example medieval lutes or little-known instruments, such as the vihuela.
