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