Lucio Antonio Carbone was born in Milan, Italy in 1959. He became interested in guitar making in his mid-teens and he has made lutherie his profession since 1983. His early production consisted of jazz guitars and instruments inspired by vintage Martin. He built his first classical guitar in 1986. In 1989 he established a workshop in Milan: where he keeps his activity going, matching a brisk trade of new and used guitars. 

Recently, he has dedicated himself to the eighteenth century guitars, encouraging recitalists to perform the repertory of the period on original instruments or accurate copies. Now he is constructing classical guitars on special order.

    He says: "For the past few years I have been drawing my inspiration from the historical guitar tradition (Torres, Garcia, Hauser). I 'm conviced that the charming melancholyc lyricism of the trebles and the solemn depth of the basses, together with a great readiness of response and a broad spectrum of timbres, are the charachteristics that contributed to the success of the classical guitar in the twentieth century and inspired composers and performers to devote themselves to this instrument. 

     It seems that these characteristics have been 'betrayed' from most of the lutherie production of the last thirty years, perhaps in the name of an ingenuous but useless pursuit of loudness or an attempt to get away from a peculiarity that some people regarded too close to the later Romantic aesthetics. In my own experience, it was only by listening to the sound of some of these 'historical' instruments that I felt the need, as a luthier, to 'capture' it. Far from the idea of renouncing further development, I'm persuaded that the time is ripe for fixing some parameters on the base of more than a century of repertory."

As far as the construction characteristics of the guitars by Lucio Antonio Carbone, they are built with woods that have been seasoned in his workshop a minimum for six years and the soundboard is split. He uses hide glue and the instruments are assembled at a relative humidity of about 40% and finally French polished.