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Oscar Trezzini’s guitars, at each attempt, each gesture, become the musician’s voice, without cracks, forwarding and reinforcing the feeling bestowed.
I would say that my guitar is a mere continuation, without interference, of the mind and the spirit.
José Luis Akel
José Luis came to my workshop for the first time looking for a classic guitar. Some time later he came back asking about the possibilities of making him a guitar with more strings, able to play barroque large lute and lute music altogether. We worked on this project over a period of two years, resulting in the construction of the 11-string guitar that José Luis currently plays.
My first step was to make a very simple sample instrument with which José Luis could thoroughly investigate the music he wanted to perform. He concluded that he would need in fact two instruments, one for the barroque lute repertoire (French tuning), and another one for the large lute musique (Italian tuning).
We exchanged quite a number of ideas until we finally designed an instrument that could include both repertoires. We finally achieved the successful end product thanks to the ability of jeweller Armando Sikorsky (www.arsik.com.ar) who built a system of transpository keys which allows one to modify the tuning of the instrument without touching the pegs.
José Luis Akel holds a diploma as « Profesor Superior de Guitarra », and has been teaching guitar since 1998 in different music schools in Argentina.
He further attended master and regular classes in Guitar, Interpretation, Music from the XVI to the XVIII century, Ancient Music, and Scenery training, with Fernando Maglia, Eduardo Isaac, Eduardo Egüez, Dolores Costoyas, Hopkinson Smith and Igor Herzog.
He has played as a soloist in the festivals of “Guitarras del Mundo” –Buenos Aires 1996- and “Alma de Guitarra” 2002, in Mar del Plata and in different music schools of Buenos Aires.
He is member of the Grupo de Música Antigua of the Collegium Musicum and of the chamber music group “Salamandra”, with whom he presented “Pieza para tres musas”, assembled by him on the basis of original writings and choreographies of French barroque music.
Since 2000, he has focused on the study and playing of Ancient Music with an instrument designed in collaboration with the luthier Oscar Trezzini, an eleven string guitar which can be tuned as a barroque lute, a large lute and a vihuela.