Pier Franco Zerbini was born in Ivrea in 1964, biologist, has been working in the field of traditional music since 1985, he has participated with live music to exhibitions of historical groups, groups of theatre-music, chorales. He founded the group Marlipò in 1989 personally looking for traditional music and songs through interviews to the eldest players and examinating of the written by hand partitures of the musical ensemles of the Canavese. After a period of concert activity in Piedmonte and outside, he founded in 1991 the Cultural Association Tacapui, of which he has been president and organizer until 1996. 

It has organized concerts and conferences, encounter of music and dance, for five consecutive years course of popular instruments in Ivrea (TO), he plays lessons and exhibitions of popular music and ancient music in the schools, update courses for teacher. For four years in the pifferi and tamburi band of the Carnival of Ivrea, it has deepened the study of the popular whistles, occasionaly as a maker, and of the Italian bagpipe, that plays also during the Christmas eve as Zampognari duo. It has been teaching bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy and diatonic accordion, he dedicates to the study and the search of the traditional instruments of the Canavese as the Tabass and the ocarina, to the collection of the instruments on the territory as semitun and the diatonic clarins, and of partiture of whichever origin. 

From the spring of the year 2000 he propose a union between ancient and contemporary instruments, in shape of concert, with the group of celtic inspiration Tir na moe, of which it is cofounder.