Sardinia’s musical tradition · Luigi Lai as a guiding thread

Launeddas

A traditional sound that belongs to the present. Images and listening excerpts to enter the continuous breath of the launeddas, with Luigi Lai as a guide.

Instrument

A distinctive sound

Three pipes, reeds and circular breathing: a living tradition that crosses centuries.

Guiding thread

Luigi Lai

A master as a human reference point: gesture, memory and transmission.

Archive

Images & recordings

Selected material to convey places, people and cultural continuity.

A human thread

Tradition through people

This website is about the launeddas. Luigi Lai is the human thread running through it: not a “monument”, but an example of a tradition kept alive through breath, practice and teaching.

Luigi Lai playing the launeddas
Highlights

Three images from the archive

Click to open the full gallery (one image at a time, with thumbnails).