Thirteen-year GAL member Andrea Tacchi was born into a Florentine family with a rich artisan heritage as jewelry makers and wood carvers. He has met and learned from master luthiers including Romanillos, Mattingly, Bouchet, Friederich, Fleta, and Kohno. He has been a professional guitar maker since 1977.
▪ bio current as of 2012
2012
AL#110 p.14
Woodley White Andrea Tacchi
▪ Andre Tacchi crafts classical guitars in Florence, Italy, honoring both past and present masters.
2000
AL#62 p.42 BRB6 p.62
Andrea Tacchi Masaru Kohno
▪ Kohno classicals are ranked with the best of 20th century guitars. His youth in pre-war Japan was an experience unfamiliar to most of us, though his path toward higher standards of craftsmanship is one that many luthiers have traveled. His life was not an ordinary one. With 5 photos.
1994
AL#39 p.44
Andrea Tacchi
▪ Tacchi opines that perhaps our attitude toward our work has too hard an edge, that we may be too eager to lose sight of the artist within us to produce the best work we are capable of.