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Matías Costa, luthier

Matías Costa

Matías Costa is a luthier and musician based in Tarragona, Spain, originally from Argentina. He builds guitars, guitaleles and ukuleles, teaches luthier courses, and runs workshops where families build a diddley bow from scratch. He has built a guitalele for Jorge Drexler and a ukulele rosette out of pencil shavings.

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Handmade guitars, guitaleles and ukuleles
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Tarragona, Spain
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Matías Costa's first ukulele was awful. He kept it.

Luthier Matías Costa built his first ukulele from a cigar box. It was awful, and he still keeps it. Now he's built a guitalele for Jorge Drexler.

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