What makes music special boxes in Sorrento
Sorrento is a small city in Campania, Italy, with some 16,500 inhabitants. It is a popular tourist destination. What made this small town so popular? Well, besides the production of Limoncello (an alcoholic digestive made from lemon rinds, alcohol, water and sugar), is the wood craftsmanship that made this world famous region. Their highly skilled craftsmen in wood craftsmanship to bring out the beauty of musical boxes.
Why music boxes made here in particular? The difference is in the wood and the way it works. The art of craft inlaid wood is hand made ancient and noble Italian tradition typical of Southern Italy (and especially Sorrento) and can only be done by workers skilled and highly trained craftsmen, whose craft is handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art is a very delicate and difficult. Are these music boxes wonderful with a decorative composition obtained by cutting, insertion and assembly of various colored pieces of wood to create a special design or picture. Then these small pieces of wood are placed on a surface to create a design that is often level with the surface of the music box.
Each original element of these music boxes are specially crafted in Sorrento, Italy by skilled artisans. The fine wood craftsmen from Sorrento were trained by their ancestors and complemented by the masterful art of the most important painters and famous. And the result? Just visit a specialist shop and music box see for yourself. Such an artistic creation without parallel in modern times and will undoubtedly have an emotional impact to any buyer. Solid maple, elm BURL or rosewood are some of the materials used to create boxes that apply in the inlaid pieces. Each of the music boxes from Sorrento is carefully polished and varnished, the interior is lined with plush velvet and hardware made in an attractive metal gold. The levels of quality is measured by several important factors: refinement design, the delicacy of manual work, the choice of forests and implementing the final phase of the work: the sizing, dressing, and refinements.
Prices of these exquisite items range from $ 90 in simple but elegant Sorrento box inlaid with a comb note 18 to nearly $ 90,000 for the note 144 comb, five cylinders, work of art decorated with inlay of 18 different precious woods. If you have the money for it, do not hesitate to purchase the item. Each individual piece is a unique work of art and its value is proportional to the quality level achieved. Many of the larger pieces will become heirlooms that are sure to be treasured from generation to generation.
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