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

Description

A 2021 classical guitar by Oscar Trezzini, with a cedar top from Daniel Friederich's own stock and dramatic CSA rosewood back and sides – the first of his new, Friederich-inspired guitars.

In the video above, Eric Henderson plays his arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" on this guitar.

A Top Tested by Friederich

Daniel Friederich had selected this cedar top for future use and tested it, writing down its longitudinal and combined tension and its density; it had even been hollowed around the soundhole for a rosette, so Oscar adapted his rosette design to fit. The Gabon ebony fingerboard, CSA rosewood bridge and Honduran mahogany neck also come from Friederich's stock.

Learning from Friederich

Rather than copying, Oscar brought Friederich's ideas into his own guitar: a slightly wider plantilla matched to Friederich's soundhole, a 650 mm scale to use his fret-slotting jig, a slight double twist in the fingerboard, a compensated saddle and nut, and sides doubled with CSA rosewood to preserve a glassy resonance.

Sound

Like chocolate silk, rich, creamy and full, it has fantastic overtones with amazing balance and separation, and a wide dynamic and color range. Fitted with Rodgers tuners.

More about this guitar, with photos taken during construction

Background

Oscar Trezzini: From Buenos Aires to Madeira

Oscar Trezzini began making guitars in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982, under the luthiers Pedro Malossetti and Héctor Curto. After building many kinds of guitars he settled on the classical guitar, which he builds exclusively. In Geneva, Switzerland, he benefited from the advice of his friend and mentor Dominique Field, and today he works on the Portuguese island of Madeira, in a workshop with an ocean view and controlled humidity.

The Friederich Connection

In 2016 Oscar became friends with Daniel Friederich, and after Friederich retired he acquired much of what the master had left – wood, instruments, measuring devices and hand tools – together with the workbenches of Friederich and Robert Bouchet. Friederich's ideas and materials have given his recent guitars a new direction.