2010 Tobias Berg SP/AR

Year	2010
Top	Spruce
Back & Sides	African Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Germany
Luthier	Tobias Berg

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Description

This 2010 Tobias Berg is a classical guitar with a spruce top and African rosewood back and sides, built in Germany with a decoratively carved headstock face.

Finest Materials and a Carved Headstock

This particular guitar is a special instrument: Tobias used his finest-quality materials (including a beautiful set of African rosewood for the back and sides) and decoratively carved the face of the headstock. It also comes with a beautiful set of Gotoh tuners installed.

Sound

Being light in weight, his guitars are very comfortable and fun to play; they are incredibly balanced, with a beautiful, liquid quality to the tone. The spruce top has fantastic clarity, with a rich, woody texture to the sound. His guitars were quickly gaining recognition among classical guitarists, and the concert artist Scott Tennant purchased one of his instruments. Along with a bold and unique appearance, Berg's guitars are very impressive overall, and we are excited to be representing this fine luthier here at GSI.

Background

Tobias Berg: From Sweden to Germany

Tobias Berg was born in 1972 in Helsingborg, Sweden, and grew up in the fishing village of Viken. After building his first classical guitar in 1995, he set out to learn the art and craft of guitar making, with courses and diplomas in Canada, England and the USA and time spent with top luthiers including Robert Ruck and Jeffrey Elliott. In 1998 he settled in Germany, where he worked for six years at Lakewood Guitars before earning the German master title (Meister) in Mittenwald in 2004 and opening his own workshop. Today he works in Kirchhain-Anzefahr, in Hesse.

Light, Compact Guitars with Double Sides

Tobias builds traditional, lightweight guitars with a slightly compact body, in the spirit of the Spanish makers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and since 2011 he has built them with double sides - a practice known from Madrid builders and from Daniel Friederich, whom he holds in very high esteem. His headstock, rosette and bridge designs reflect a fondness for traditional Japanese architecture. GSI has been working with Tobias since 2005, when he sent us his 20th guitar; in 2026 he built his 50th guitar for us.