Made of Natural Beech Wood Used for making homemade pastas such as spaghetti, fettuccine or tagliatelle To use simply lay the dough across one side of the chitarra and you will make 3 mm spaghetti, the other side will make 5 mm fettuccine. Made 100% in Italy Eppicotispai Chitarra (pronounced key-tahr-rah) is a pasta maker believed to have been invented in Chieti, Abruzzo region in central Italy around the 1800's.Meaning 'guitar,' a chitarra looks like a double-sided harp, with strings set close on one side, farther on the other. In then center of the device is a slanted board, designed to allow the cut pasta to slide off easily once it's been cut by the strings. Simply use a rolling pin, flattening and pressing the dough through the wires.