Discovering Italian Free Metal Reeds: A Fieldwork Enquiry

This article presents some of the results achieved in complex and still little-known production system metal free reeds for mechanical bellows aerophones. It starts from encounter with Lorenzo Antonelli, director Italian factory "Voci Armoniche", which is one oldest most important world. The account this will be used to demonstrate how intensive fieldwork research ethnomusicology (i.e. practice cyclical alternation phases situ ex situ) can mutually enrich knowledge both observer observed and, at same time, stimulate changes individuals, as well objects covered by survey. methodological structure based on my experiences, here an anthropological approach, intent clarifying crucial aspects oral transmission contexts within aural culture. Finally, aims contribute debate relation between basic applied context ethnomusicological, organological studies anthropology techniques.