Atelier
We repair and optimize all types of guitars, mandolins and other plucked string instruments. All luthier work is carried out directly in our workshop.
We carry out all types of operations, from routine setups to the most delicate and demanding restoration work, on guitars for private individuals, professional musicians as well as public or private collections. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for any information regarding work to be done on your instrument!
Structural repairs
Structural repairs
My collaborators
Nora Gebhardt
After 3 years of studying at the Musical Instrument Making School in Mittenwald, Germany from which she graduated in 2006, Nora went on to spend a year honing her skills with luthier Christopher Schultz in southern France, where she specialized in the restoration of ancient instruments. Back in Germany in 2007, she joined the workshop of the Munich Guitar Company for the next 2 years; during this time, she spent long hours setups on a variety of guitars as well practicing frequent repair techniques.
In October 2009, Nora ended up settling down in Clermont-Ferrand and started working with Jérôme Casanova, who has been passing down his know-how to her for the past 10 years.
Hadi Hammouda
Hadi Hammouda joined Galerie Casanova in the spring of 2022. A lifelong musician, he has dedicated the last few years of his life to building and restoring a wide variety of electronic music equipment: from tube amplifiers to studio effects and recording equipment, synthesizers, tube radios and test equipment.
As a versatile worker, his prerogatives range from customer contact around the shop and online; keeping the website up to date with photography, research and writing work for every guitar or instrument brought in by Galerie Casanova. Lastly, he handles the restoration of vintage tube amplifiers, with the same approach as what is practiced for string instrument restoration: achieving optimal functionality while preserving maximum originality, so that vintage amplifiers may live on and be played safely as an enduring testimony to the history of the people who designed and built these devices, and to the musical culture they generated.