Alessandro Perciaccante

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I received my first classical guitar when I was thirteen years old and I’ve been in love with this beautiful instrument ever since. Back in 2017 I decided to move to Spain to learn the art of guitar making, and it’s in a small village on the coast in Granada province that I found the workshop of Master Luthier Stephen Hill. Here, at the European Institute of Guitar Making, I built my first guitar under Stephen’s and his previous apprentice, Evan Kingma, directions. I immediately fell in love with the process and after finishing my first instrument I decided to stay and to carry on building guitars in Stephen’s workshop, also starting to build his model 2 classical and flamenco guitars and slowly becoming his new apprentice.

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I am currently his assistant, working every day side by side with him also on the construction of his master model guitars and as a teacher in his guitar making courses at the EIGM.

 

Working on Stephen's Master model guitars is a privilege that just one of all his previous apprentices has had before me.

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Aside from all the work I do for my mentor, I build my own guitars. I make both classical and flamenco guitars following the traditional Spanish method of construction. In my classical guitars there's a strong influence of the Granada’s school of guitar makers – especially of the work of Antonio Marin Montero and of his cooperation with the French luthier Robert Bouchet.

I love to study the work of the great makers of the past, in particular of the one who’s considered the father of the Spanish guitar, Don Antonio de Torres.

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Aiming to create each time a unique guitar that will fit perfectly the needs of my clients, I maintain a constant correspondence with them during the building process, showing and explaining how their guitar is being created, and exchanging views on how to proceed in order to better meet their expectations.

Upon request, I also build smaller body/romantic guitars with shorter scale length. 

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I build a limited amount of guitars a year, which allows me to reach the high level of refinement that I want in my instruments.

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In 2019 I took part in the “International guitar making competition Antonio Marin Montero” in Granada, where over 20 fine makers from all over the world were participating. I entered a flamenco guitar and got to the final stage of the competition, eventually winning the 4th prize. Even if I wasn’t able to win, just being judged among the best was in itself a great achievement, especially considering that I was one of the younger makers and that the guitar I entered was only the 4th guitar I ever had the chance to build. Getting to know many great guitar makers as well as their working methods also represented a great opportunity to improve the quality of my own work.

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