Today, the quality of a restoration is judged by the restorer’s ability to preserve the instrument. This is an enormous responsibility that requires the restorer to be on par with the instrument he is asked to restore and to possess the necessary experience, carry out research and act with all due prudence and respect.
An instrument’s musicality, it original spirit, is very, very fragile; that’s why undertaking a task of this nature is such a delicate matter.


