Early last century Northern Italy was under Napoleonic domain. Napoleon Bonaparte issued a decree by which he established the suppression of all religious orders. The history of the company roots back right to this time when two brothers and monks, Pasquale and Giuseppe Mascioni, were forced to take refuge at the foot of the Alps, in Cuvio, their hometown located in a green valley crossed by the stream Boesio which flows into Lake Maggiore.
The two brothers induced their nephew to become an organ master and so they sent him to study with the musician Pietro Della Valle.Years went by and the younger Mascioni learnt the secrets of the craft: in 1829 he founded the organ factory "Giacomo Mascioni" . After winning a name in the area in 1869 he made the first organ for a foreign country, Switzerland, in the Bernese Juras.
