2003 Stefano Moccetti SP/CSAR

A 2003 classical guitar by Swiss-Italian luthier Stefano Moccetti, with a spruce top and CSA rosewood back and sides – No. 103, made in Biogno after the 1973 Romanillos of Julian Bream.

In the video above, Tomasz Fechner and Deanna Pyeon play "Nightclub 1960" from Piazzolla's "Histoire du Tango", Tomasz on this guitar.

A Copy of Julian Bream's 1973 Romanillos

Moccetti built this guitar exactly to the specifications of Bream's famous 1973 José Luis Romanillos, from the thicknesses of the woods to the dimensions, while giving it his own aesthetic details.

Strong Basses, Bell-Like Trebles

It sounds very much like the original, with very strong basses, bell-like, percussive trebles and a warm glow across every register – a great example for anyone looking for the classic Bream sound.

Stefano Moccetti: A Pupil of Romanillos in Switzerland

Stefano Moccetti is a Swiss-Italian guitar maker who works in Biogno, in the Italian-speaking south of Switzerland. A guitarist first, he began building in 1982. In 1984 he met José Luis Romanillos at a lutherie course in Zurich, and a year later he studied privately in the Romanillos workshop – one of the master's first students.

Old Swiss Spruce and French Polish

Moccetti's guitars have the natural, woody sound and sweetness of a Romanillos. He has won prizes in European guitar-making competitions, his guitars are played by Andrea Dieci and Massimo Laura, and he finishes every instrument with flake shellac French polish; his tops come from red spruce nearly 300 years old, grown in the Swiss Alps.