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2021 Oscar Trezzini CD/CSAR

Year 2021
Top Cedar
Back & Sides CSA Rosewood
Scale Length 650 mm
Nut width 53 mm
Finish French Polish
Country Portugal
Luthier Oscar Trezzini

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Description

Oscar Trezzini started as a guitar maker in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982, under the tutelage of luthiers Pedro Malossetti and Héctor Curto. His early efforts produced a dazzling variety of different guitar types before he gradually refined his techniques and settled on the classical model, which he now builds exclusively. Then for a period, he lived and worked in Switzerland, where he benefitted from the additional advice of his friend and mentor Dominique Field. In 2016, he developed a friendship with Daniel Friederich, and after Friederich's retirement, Oscar purchased a large amount of what Friederich had left, including a good deal of wood, instruments and his personal measuring devices and hand tools. Trezzini also acquired the workbenches of both Friederich and Robert Bouchet which he candidly admits won’t make his guitars better, but rather serve as a reminder of his great affection and admiration for Daniel, which provides him a more inspiring environment in which to work. He has since relocated yet again, this time to the Portuguese island of Madeira, off the northwest coast of Africa and set up a new workshop with an ocean view and controlled humidity. These changes, including some great insights, have given him a new direction in his work, and he's made several amazing changes to the design of his guitars.

This instrument is built with some of Friederich’s materials, including the cedar top which Friederich had selected for future use and run his physical tests on. He wrote out all the results of longitudinal and combined tension in addition to its density. It had also already had been emptied around the soundhole where the rosette would eventually be embedded so Oscar has had to adapt his rosette design slightly in order to fit. Other materials used for this guitar from Friederich's stock include a Gabon ebony fingerboard, CSA Rosewood bridge and Honduran mahogany neck. In addition to the materials, Trezzini has also infused into this guitar much of what he learned from Friederich during their many conversations. As Friederich was not a fan of “replicas” of his work, Trezzini has instead enhanced the qualities of his own work with many of Friederich’s ideas rather than to make a copy. For example, the plantilla is a little wider than in his prior guitars - this is done to increase the size of the box in order to achieve the correct body resonance adapted to the diameter of Friederich's soundhole size. Scale length is 650 mm instead of his usual 644 mm which allowed Trezzini to use Friederich's fret slotting jig. The fingerboard now has a very slight double twist for balancing bridge pressure, and the saddle and nut are both compensated. Lastly, like Friederich, the sides are doubled, however not with mahogany as Friederich did, but rather with CSA rosewood which Trezzini believes preserves the glassy resonance of the sound, and to stabilize possible tensions in the grain of the external set. Once glued, they are then reduced in thickness to avoid unwanted weight.

This all translates directly into a new, exciting and beautiful style of sound for Trezzini. The tone is like chocolate silk, the overtone content is fantastic, the notes are rich, creamy and full. And yet there is amazing balance and separation at the same time. The guitar has an excellent dynamic range, great amount of color, and it is extra responsive to the touch. It's fitted with Rodgers tuners and in addition to the Friederich materials already mentioned, a dramatic set of CSA rosewood for the back and sides with 3-dimensional patterning in the grain. Overall, it sounds as gorgeous as it looks. We congratulate Oscar on his newfound path, working now from a new location with precious tools and materials, and a new vision for his work. This is the first of many instruments in this style we look forward to seeing in the coming years.

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2021 Oscar Trezzini CD/CSAR

Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" performed by Eric Henderson on a 2021 Oscar Trezzini

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