Ricardo Sanchis Nácher · The Founding Generation
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.
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. Individual Sanchis Nácher instruments appear in the specialist trade. The grandfather and the grandson together do not.
Sanchis Dynasty · Patriarch
Ricardo Sanchis Nácher (El Abuelo, c.1945) → Ricardo Sanchis Carpio (El Nieto, 1989) → Hermanos Sanchis López (active 2026). El Abuelo is the earliest Sanchis instrument held - 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 Record
| 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 Blanca |
| 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 |
Label confirmed. The instrument has been professionally inspected and conserved to museum standard. Interventions are documented and kept to the minimum the instrument requires. Its structural and provenance record is maintained privately under museum archival standard.
Tradition & Use
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.
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, Module 2 · The Makers.
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