Ricardo Sanchis Nácher is the patriarch of the Sanchis guitar-making dynasty of Masanasa, Valencia - a four-generation workshop lineage still active in 2026. El Abuelo was built c.1945, in the immediate post-war period. Independent inspection has confirmed the instrument.
El Abuelo is paired with El Nieto (Ricardo Sanchis Carpio, 1989) - grandfather and grandson held simultaneously in one collection, forty-four years of dynasty production documented in a single pair. The c.1945 construction places El Abuelo in the wartime to post-war transition - old-growth spruce confirmed by grain density. No confirmed Sanchis Nácher comparable has been identified in monitored specialist trade within a 36-month window.
Ricardo Sanchis Nácher (El Abuelo, c.1945) → Ricardo Sanchis Carpio (El Nieto, 1989) → Hermanos Sanchis López (active 2026). El Abuelo is the anchor of the dynasty pair - the founding instrument of a lineage that has built guitars across four generations and nearly eighty years. The full lineage context is covered in the ANICETO University curriculum.
| Instrument Name | El Abuelo · The Grandfather |
| Maker | Ricardo Sanchis Nácher · Masanasa, Valencia |
| Year | c.1945 · Wartime to post-war era |
| School | Valencia · Sanchis dynasty founding generation |
| Type | Flamenca · Spruce top with maple back and sides, outside the blanca and negra convention |
| Top | Spruce · Old-growth confirmed by grain density |
| Back & Sides | Maple · per the acquisition record |
| Unique Identifier | Blue ink rectangular stamp on both soundhole sides |
Independent inspection has confirmed the instrument. The instrument has been professionally inspected and conserved to museum standard, with all interventions fully reversible. Its structural and provenance record is maintained privately under museum archival standard.
Built in the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, in a Valencia workshop that survived the conflict and continued its tradition. El Abuelo's voice carries the acoustic character of old-growth spruce - a tonewood no longer available for new instrument construction.
The story of this guitar is in the curriculum.
The Sanchis dynasty - four generations, the Masanasa workshop, and the acoustic character of old-growth Valencia spruce - is documented in the ANICETO University curriculum.
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