Acquisition of skills to be able to draw up a restoration project after analyzing a plucked instrument that needs a work of consolidation. The analyzed instrument can also be submitted to the protection of the Sovrintendenza or in any case of historical importance. Manage the various operations programmed in the restoration project independently with the tools and substances made available.
Course Prerequisites
Having passed the Laboratory Exam of the previous academic years
Teaching Methods
Theoretical lessons carried out through the projection of images and aimed at: Recognition of the various types of instruments Identification of various operational strategies Exhibition of experiences carried out on Musical Instruments of museum, public and private collections.
Practical lessons carried out through specific operational examples: Examples of cleaning Examples of gluing and consolidation Examples of construction of forms and reconstructions of reintegration parts.
Assessment Methods
Through practical tests and discussions relevant to the operations implemented.
Texts
Selected from time to time based on the needs and instruments considered or made available
Contents
The program and the contents are both theoretical and practical
Theoretical part Document and analyze the musical instrument entrusted by describing it through images, measurements and some simple scientific investigations. Historically contextualize the instrument and its use. Description of the various parts that compose it and identification of the various essences and materials.
Practical part Highlight the importance of the "Safety Rules" for the various operations that will have to be carried out. Cleaning exercises: identification of dirt levels, mechanical, physical and chemical removal. Use of tools suitable for cleaning such as brushes, spatulas, scalpels, rubbers and abrasives. Ungluing exercises: identification of the various glues, mechanical and chemical removal. Use of tools suitable for the purpose. Gluing exercises: restoration of flat and disconnected gluing. Consolidation of parts in a precarious state of solidity. Use of tools suitable for the purpose. Construction exercises: construction of "purpose-made" for complex gluing. Construction of forms and counterforms. Reconstruction exercises: reconstruction of missing parts and adaptation to the original parts.
