Igino Sderci

Igino Sderci (1884–1983), a native of the Chianti region gifted at sculpture and wood carving, met Leandro Bisiach in 1916 when Bisiach moved to Siena at the invitation of Count Chigi-Saracini to restore and catalogue the count's instrument collection. Bisiach trained him into one of his own key collaborators, and Sderci went on to be counted, alongside the Antoniazzis, as one of the two hands most ...Read More clearly recognizable across the whole of Leandro Bisiach Sr.'s output — his woodworking in particular defines Bisiach instruments from the early 1920s onward. He later moved to Florence, where he continued working under Carlo Bisiach and, off the record, maintained a similar informal collaboration with Simone Fernando Sacconi . Read Less