23,094
edits
Don Carlos: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
(New page: '''Don Carlos - Courtesy of [http://www.italianpipemakers.com/inglese/Frameset-1gb.htm italianpipemakers.com]''' left|thumb|Bruto Sordini [[Image:Don...) |
No edit summary |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Don Carlos - Courtesy of [http://www.italianpipemakers.com/inglese/Frameset-1gb.htm italianpipemakers.com]''' | '''Don Carlos - Courtesy of [http://www.italianpipemakers.com/inglese/Frameset-1gb.htm italianpipemakers.com]''' | ||
[[Image:Don Carlos Bruto Sordini.jpg|left|thumb|Bruto Sordini]] | [[File:DonCarlos.jpg|thumb|left|Courtesy Doug Valitchka]][[Image:Don Carlos Pipe01.jpg|right|thumb]][[Image:Don Carlos Bruto Sordini.jpg|left|thumb|Bruto Sordini]][[Image:Don Carlos Pipe05 Kronos Quartet.jpg|right|thumb|Kronos Quartet]] | ||
[[Image:Don Carlos | |||
Don Carlos pipes are born of thirty-year experience, inspired by local tradition, when at the beginning of 1900, '''Primo Soriani''' was a pipe maker near '''Cagli'''. | Don Carlos pipes are born of thirty-year experience, inspired by local tradition, when at the beginning of 1900, '''Primo Soriani''' was a pipe maker near '''Cagli'''. | ||
| Line 14: | Line 13: | ||
'''The imaginative musical master is back - with new shapes and new finishes''' - Courtesy of [http://www.rdfield.com/Don%20Carlos/don_carlos.htm '''R.D.Field'''] | '''The imaginative musical master is back - with new shapes and new finishes''' - Courtesy of [http://www.rdfield.com/Don%20Carlos/don_carlos.htm '''R.D.Field'''] | ||
[[Image:Don Carlos Pipe02.jpg|left|thumb]] | [[Image:Don Carlos Pipe02.jpg|left|thumb]] | ||
[[Image:Don Carlos Pipe03.jpg | [[Image:Don Carlos Pipe03.jpg|thumb]] | ||
[[Image:Don Carlos Pipe04.jpg|left|thumb]] | [[Image:Don Carlos Pipe04.jpg|left|thumb]] | ||
'''Bruto Sordini''' was born in the small village of '''Cagli''', high in the mountains of central '''Italy'''. While studying law, Bruto developed a passion for pipe making, and so gave up what was to be a promising law career in order to work with his hands and heart as well as his mind. | '''Bruto Sordini''' was born in the small village of '''Cagli''', high in the mountains of central '''Italy'''. While studying law, Bruto developed a passion for pipe making, and so gave up what was to be a promising law career in order to work with his hands and heart as well as his mind. | ||
Bruto's work as a pipe maker is rather well known by aficionados of the briar. Following his apprenticeship with various firms, he formed, with two other pipe makers, a partnership called '''Ser Jacopo'''. After a few years of such collaboration, Bruto felt he could make more interesting pipes on his own, so he, along with his charming wife Rosaria, formed '''Don Carlos'''. | Bruto's work as a pipe maker is rather well known by aficionados of the briar. Following his apprenticeship with various firms, he formed, with two other pipe makers, a partnership called '''Ser Jacopo'''. After a few years of such collaboration, Bruto felt he could make more interesting pipes on his own, so he, along with his charming wife Rosaria, formed '''Don Carlos'''. | ||
| Line 26: | Line 24: | ||
Apart from pipe making there is the family - wife Rosaria and three boys, two at University and one shortly to enter. Bruto and Rosaria live in the center of the medieval village of Cagli where everyone seems to know each other, and polite banter is tossed back and forth at the various cafes on the main piazza. | Apart from pipe making there is the family - wife Rosaria and three boys, two at University and one shortly to enter. Bruto and Rosaria live in the center of the medieval village of Cagli where everyone seems to know each other, and polite banter is tossed back and forth at the various cafes on the main piazza. | ||
Urbino is an inexpensive handmade pipe made by Don Carlos | |||
<center><gallery widths=250px heights=185px caption="Urbino example, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
File:Urbino01.jpg | |||
File:Urbino09.jpg | |||
</gallery></center> | |||
<revive zone="7" align="right" caption="An excellent selection of Don Carlos pipes is available at Pipedia Underwriter, lepipe.it" /> | |||
'''Don Carlos, Bruto Sordini''' | '''Don Carlos, Bruto Sordini''' | ||
Via Fontetta 4 | Via Fontetta 4 | ||
| Line 32: | Line 43: | ||
Fax: +39.0721.79.00.84 | Fax: +39.0721.79.00.84 | ||
Email: mailto:brutosor@tin.it | Email: mailto:brutosor@tin.it | ||
[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | |||
[[Category: Italy]] | |||