This page is about a company. For a village see Longoni, Mayotte

Longoni, Mayotte

Longoni is a village in the commune of Koungou on Mayotte....

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Longoni SRL is one of the most prominent European manufacturers of high-end cue stick

Cue stick

A cue stick , is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the...

s. The company, founded by Alessandro Longoni in 1945, is based in Mariano Comense

Mariano Comense

Mariano Comense is a town and comune in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy. It has c. 23,600 inhabitants and is one of the most important cities of the Brianza. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on February 29, 1996. The city is also known for the drummer Fabio...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. Longoni makes cues customized for various carom billiards disciplines, including three-cushion

Three-cushion billiards

Three-cushion billiards is a form of carom billiards, and one of the most popular and challenging cue sports in the world.The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least 3...

, five-pins

Five-pins

Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins , is a today usually a carom but sometimes still a pocket form of cue sport, popular especially in Italy and Argentina but also in some other parts of Latin America and Europe, with international, televised professional tournaments...

 and artistic billiards

Artistic billiards

Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty...

, as well as pool

Pocket billiards

Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...

 and Russian pyramid cues more recently.

Over the years, several professional players, including Dick Jaspers

Dick Jaspers

Dick Jaspers is a Dutch professional carom billiards player who specializes in the three-cushion event.-Early life:...

 and Niels Feijen

Niels Feijen

Niels Feijen is a professional pool player, from the Hague, Netherlands. His nickname is "the Terminator".In 2001, Feijen reached the finals of a nine-ball tournament in Tokyo, Japan. The event had a field of more than 700 players and offered the largest prize money at that time. However, he lost...

, have helped design and develop new lines of Longoni carom and pool cues, respectively. As of 2007, both champions are under contract with Longoni.

A hallmark of Longoni cues is their often unusual designs – including octagonal cuts, sewn-in leather strips, and intricate inlay ornaments. Longoni's two top lines of pool cues, the Classica and Silver series, range from approximately US$

United States dollar

The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

1,500 to $6,000.

Longoni supports no-ivory

Ivory

Ivory is a term for dentine, which constitutes the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals, when used as a material for art or manufacturing. Ivory has been important since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, dominoes, joint tubes, piano keys and...

 cue production by exclusively using made of phenolic resin.

External links

• Longoni company English-language website (an alternate interface is available here)