Leonardo Michelin-Salomon – Luthier
Eighteen-year member Leonardo Michelin-Salomon studied lutherie at the School of Arts and Crafts in his native Uruguay, before moving to Norway in late 2002. He’s been building classical guitars for twenty years, and more recently also designing and building electric guitars and basses, and studying guitars from the early 1800s. Lutherie is his perfect excuse for keeping always busy learning new stuff.
▪ bio current as of
2021
AL#143 p.40
Leonardo Michelin-Salomon
▪ In AL#141 Leonardo showed us how he was building Romantic-era guitars at the craft school in Norway. This time he is taking a deep dive into building with local spruce. Although the trees are not big, the wood is very good. Mentions Gennaro Fabricatore, Johann Anton Stauffer, Josef Pagés, Coffee-Goguette.
2020
AL#141 p.26
Leonardo Michelin-Salomon
▪ A Uruguayan luthier enrolls in a craft school in Norway to study Romantic-era guitars built by Italian, German, and French makers two hundred years ago. He writes an article about his techniques and discoveries that is published in an American journal with readers in over forty countries. Yes, it’s a big beautiful lutherie world. We are all just leaves on one wide-spreading, figured-maple branch.