At a very early age, Philip MONERET used to sit and dream in the family garden of the Vosges area, sensitive to the music of the wind in the fir-trees. There began a long story of notes and wood. Entered Louis Georgel.
1975 : Philip attended the luth school at Mirecourt.
The mountain seemed to become a plain, tree-trunks and the wind in the branches turned into tassels , harmony-tables and winter pieces while René MORIZOT and Roland TERRIER took care.
1980 : music gradually became Philip’s main interest and he devoted most of his time to it, but the tools required not to be neglected.
In 1985 again he felt the need to concentrate on the various kinds of trees and woods. Visiting different workshops, he discovered GERÔME, a century-old famous workshop.
1995, Lucien GERÔME put an end to an exemplary career. Yet his workshop would continue its existence with Philip, his “adoptive spiritual son”.
Respect for his elders and a passion for the expression of hand gesture incited Philip MONERET to disregard the current mechanized or even industrialized production of guitars and mandolins to offer a range of personally hand-made instruments.
His motto remains “from the tree to the musician” and “from the see-saw to the rake".
This is how he presents at least one new model a year, though not pretending to be a “creator”.
Such is his secret to keep listening to the song of the autumn wind in the branches…

Philip MONERET was awarded the 1st Prize of Arts and Crafts in 1996 at Musicora, Paris and the Marcel Vattelot Foundation Prize in 1997.
He remarks : "… I like working with professional musicians when they feel they are music-lovers, and with music-lovers when they feel they are professionals".