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Andrea Tacchi was born in Florence in 1956. He comes from a Florentine family deeply rooted in this Tuscan city and its artisanal and artistic heritage. Interested in musical instruments from an early age, he made his first guitar at the age of 15. During his engineering studies at university, he met an Argentinian luthier, Ricardo Brané, with whom he studied lutherie. In the early '80s, Tacchi travelled to Spain, where he met the great Spanish luthiers Fleta, Ramirez and Bernabe, who gave him valuable advice. At the same time, he also travelled to England, where he met José Romanillos and other great English luthiers. However, the most important event for him in the early 80s was his encounter with Robert Bouchet. Bouchet was an artist before he was a luthier, and he probably approached the construction of a guitar like the creation of a painting, i.e. as a totality in which the aesthetics and visual harmony of the object are intimately linked to its sound and musical aesthetics. For this young luthier from Florence, the city where he grew up and where art and beauty are present on every street corner, this encounter with Robert Bouchet could not have been without consequences for the rest of his career and for his approach to lutherie.

The guitar presented here is his “homage to Robert Bouchet” model. It combines breathtaking visual beauty with the musical universe it deploys. It offers a wide diversity of timbres and colors, as well as great clarity and polyphonic precision. Andrea Tacchi's guitars are much sought-after around the world, by such great names as Filomena Moretti, Carlo Macchione, Marcelo Kayath, Antigóni Góni and many others. Two of his guitars are part of the collection of Florence's Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini. It's an opportunity to present this instrument built by an exceptional luthier.