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Sorry, this video is only in Italian, it would be too time consuming to translate it world by world.
I just discovered this video from Takumi’s blog, which I recommend to you all, liuteriatakumi.
I love it because most of these men and women I had the occasion to interview them personally in 2007, and the ones I didn’t are confirming what I knew. I was so happy to see them still healthy after 10 years, they are more than 80 years old now.
I hope you can enjoy this and the Italian atmosphere coming from it despite the language!
By the way, I collected all the interviews that Mimmo Peruffo and I made in Salle in a book which is for sale on Amazon, check it out:
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