Carlo Tarantola (carlo@tarantola.com)
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Born November 10th, 1958, in Genoa, Italy.

I hold a degree in Electronic Engineering, but I also always wanted to
be an organist.  I studied music first by myself and then with several
teachers in different epochs of my life. Nowadays, I started studying
the organ again and I am currently at the "Ecole Departementale de
Musique des Alpes Maritimes" in the south of France.

I have assembled a 5 keyboards electronic organ driven by the virtual
pipe organ software Hauptwerk. I own several samples sets, notably those
of Gottfried Silbermann at St. Marien and the Palace of Arts of Budapest
great concert organ. Others astonishingly good samples are in my wish
list, so little by little I hope to be able to acquire them.

For the virtual pipe organ, I am currently trying to build a keyboard
that mimics as closely as possible the "touch and feel" of a mechanical
organ.

Until I was in Italy I played some historical Italian instruments and
now that I live in France, I am lucky to be allowed to play on several
pipe organs of the region (Monaco, Grasse).