Giuseppe Tumiati

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next Summer (2007) I'll teach the following courses:

  • Propaedeutical
    to approach the luthery: to know, sharpening and manteining tools, wood technology notions and so on, along with practical luthery exercises in sight of a musical instrument building
    target: the beginner, who never come close to wood or tools
    July Thursday 5th 2007 - July Saturday 14th 2007, booking within July 5th 2007
    no more than 5 people

    Eur 700.00 to attend the class

Of course you can't learn everything in ten days, but you'll have some good basic and ideas to deep and practice

 

  • Work at my workshop
    be an apprentice in my workshop
    target: aspirant professional lutemakers
    strongly required some experience about Musical Instruments building and/or woodworking
    July Thursday 19th 2007 - July Saturday 28th 2007, booking within July 5th 2007
    no more than 5 people

    Eur 700.00 to attend the class
    + Eur 700.00 if you want to bring an instrument home (Renaissance Student Lute)

Of course you can't become a professional in just ten days, but sure this experience will be unique: you'll be part of a team working to build 5 Renaissance Lutes and the kits for the following classes

 

  • Repair
    how to fix, modify, restore your instruments + something about maintenance
    target: mainly Musicians
    August Thursday 2nd 2007 - August Saturday 11th 2007, booking within July 5th 2007
    no more than 5 people

    Eur 600.00 to attend the class

Of course you can't become a repaireman in just ten days, but sure you can be more conscious about your instruments, able to understand their problems and to fix them by yourself


  • Build your own instrument
    how to build your instrument
    target: mainly Musicians, but also aspirant lutemakers
    August Thursday 16th 2007 - August Saturday 25th 2007, booking within July 5th 2007
    no more than 5 people

    Eur 700.00 to attend the class
    + Eur 700.00 if you want to bring your instrument home (Renaissance Student Lute)

Of course you can't become a Lutemaker in just ten days, but sure you can learn something more about your instrument, understand how it gets out of a bunch of wood, become familiar with tools and, well ... how to put together a kit

the instruments
for the "Repaire" class you are more than welcome to bring your own instruments and to work on it, then a lot of repaire will be done on "spare" parts.

the standard for "Build your own instrument" and "Work at my workshop" classes will be a Renaissance Student Lute (7 course) but if you want to build something different ask for it, we'll see if it is possible

if you want to bring your brand new instrument home you'll work with a kit of parts to be assembled

BE AWARE :
all of the instruments built during the classes will have a lable as follow

Giuseppe Tumiati's workshop

Summer Classes
student name
Montuè A.D. 2006

IN NO CASE istruments with this lable can be considered my production and sold as mine, otherwise it will be a fraud and Law Authority will be informed

 

the place
all the classes will be at my workshop, up the Oltrepo hills (the very firsts hills South the Po river)
frazione Montuè 75 - I-27044 Canneto Pavese (PV) Italy

you can see some slides, I took them when I first saw the house, before to purchaise it
sorry I can't host anybody and in Montuè there's no hotels at all, but a few Kms away (Canneto Pavese, Broni, Stradella) sure you can find an accomodation

the money

payments: 50% for the reservation
50% at the very beginning of your class

money-back policy
§ I'll refound you completely if the class can't be done for my fault (I mean: the house get down, the hurricane blow away all of my wood, the pest would take me, ....)

§ If you change your mind but you find someonelse for the class: you'll have your money back

§ If you change your mind and I find someonelse for the class: you'll loose a 10%

§ If you change your mind too late to be replaced: down payment can't be refounded

 

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