{"product_id":"erez-matzrafi-2026-andrea-tacchi","title":"Erez Matzrafi - 2026 \"Thucea\"","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout the luthier\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eErez Matzrafi is an Israeli luthier who has been building classical and flamenco guitars since 2013. Initially self-taught, he gradually developed guitar making from a personal craft into a professional vocation, refining his work through contact with musicians including Yoram Zerbib, Tal Hurwitz and Ruben Seroussi. A particularly important influence came through his collaboration with Andrea Tacchi, facilitated by Tal Hurwitz. This exchange shaped Matzrafi’s approach to both sound and construction, with particular attention to soundboard thickness, a membrane-like response, double cypress sides and the subtle interaction of spruce and cedar. Tacchi’s influence can also be felt in Matzrafi’s restrained aesthetic language and in his search for an instrument in which material, structure and musical response remain closely connected.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the guitar\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe 2026 “Thucea” is a refined homage to the aesthetic and acoustic principles of Andrea Tacchi. Its distinctive three-piece soundboard combines spruce and cedar, while the double cypress sides form part of a construction conceived for stability, sensitivity and a freely resonating response. The resulting voice has an especially airy quality: notes seem to release easily from the instrument, surrounded by a colourful field of overtones without losing definition at their centre. Its dynamic range is broad, allowing the sound to expand naturally while remaining balanced and composed across the registers. Sustain is particularly striking, both in its length and its evenness; chords can be allowed to linger and unfold, giving harmonic changes unusual space to breathe. The treble register is equally persuasive, with a first string that retains intensity and a singing persistence high into melodic lines rather than thinning as the phrase develops. This combination of resonance, colour and tonal continuity gives the Thucea an expressive flexibility that rewards subtle changes of touch, while its French-polished surfaces and carefully considered decorative details complete an instrument whose visual refinement closely mirrors its musical character.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Siccas Guitars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54707082592589,"sku":"S19018","price":5890.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0765\/4011\/7325\/files\/erez-matzrafi-2026-andrea-tacchi-13.jpg?v=1789051597","url":"https:\/\/www.siccasguitars.com\/products\/erez-matzrafi-2026-andrea-tacchi","provider":"Siccas Guitars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}