Hand intelligence: the creative itinerary of a musical luthier, between quartet and guitare
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Abstract
Gilles Mercier around 1977 in his workshop (former Grizzo workshop), Paris, Belleville Gilles Mercier, is one of the ‘new luthiers’ who come to this profession for reasons other than amber parentage or my origin, two determinisms at work in France until the middle of the twentieth century. Like many luthiers formed in the 1970s, he turned to lutheria by taste of music and manual activities. A child, he made guitar and tinned purple...