2022 Stefan Nitschke "Hauser" SP/CSAR

A 2022 "Hauser" classical guitar by Stefan Nitschke, with a bearclaw spruce top and a four-piece CSA rosewood back – "La Suela", as Stefan named it in his own hand on the label.

In the videos above, Veronika Mushkina plays Rodrigo's "Tiento Antiguo", Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado's Minuets No. 2 and 15 and David Kellner's "Phantasia" in D major, Ethan Boyers plays Konstantin Vassiliev's "Alba", and Stefan himself talks about this guitar.

After Segovia's 1937 Hauser

This is Stefan's interpretation of several Hauser I guitars, with the inside based largely on the 1937 Hauser immortalized by Andrés Segovia. The colorful CSA rosewood is in four pieces, and the amber finish lends an aged look.

A Hauser Voice

Sturdy, dry and woody, with a strong fundamental and controlled overtones, the guitar has the looseness of an old instrument and a lovely lyrical charm in the trebles.

Photos of this guitar being built

Read more: Orfeo Magazine No. 22 – Gernot Wagner and the New German Generation (with a feature on Stefan Nitschke)

Stefan Nitschke: A Guitarist Turned Guitar Maker

Stefan Nitschke is a German classical guitar maker, born in 1982, who works in Kirchhain, Hesse. A guitarist who came back to the classical guitar through the music of Tárrega, he studied at the conservatory in Osnabrück from 2002, where his teacher Ulrich Müller encouraged him to build his first guitar – on the carpet of his living room. He learned more by watching Gerhard Oldiges at work, and from 2004 studied at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt while working as a luthier.

Romanillos, Hauser and Santos

His passion is the sound of the old masters, and his models pay tribute to José Luis Romanillos, Hermann Hauser I and Santos Hernández, as well as Vicente Arias and Manuel Ramírez – interpretations rather than literal copies. Like Romanillos, he gives each guitar a name. He was featured among "the new German generation" in Orfeo Magazine No. 22.