Eduardo Ferrer's full maker designation - Sobrino y Sucesor de Benito Ferrer - documents the explicit succession from the Granada school's founding patriarch. The instrument has been professionally inspected and conserved to museum standard.
El Fragua is paired with La Sombra (Benito Ferrer, 1925) - patriarch and successor, twenty-five years apart, both built at the same address in Granada. The dynasty pair is confirmed and locked in the collection. Eduardo Ferrer instruments are extremely rare in any market. No confirmed comparable has been identified in specialist trade.
La Sombra (Benito Ferrer, 1925, founding generation) and El Fragua (Eduardo Ferrer, 1950, successor generation) constitute the confirmed Granada dynasty pair. Together they document the transmission of the Santa Ana, Huerto del Loro workshop tradition across twenty-five years and two generations. The full lineage context is covered in the ANICETO University curriculum.
| Instrument Name | El Fragua · The Forge |
| Maker | Eduardo Ferrer Sobrino y Sucesor de Benito Ferrer · Santa Ana, Huerto del Loro, Granada |
| Year | 1950 · October 3, 1950 · Confirmed on label |
| School | Granada · Successor generation |
| Type | Flamenca Blanca |
| Top | Spruce |
| Back & Sides | Cypress |
| Dynasty Role | Dynasty pair with La Sombra (Benito Ferrer 1925) · Granada dynasty confirmed |
| Collection Role | Granada School · Successor Generation Anchor |
| Acquired | 2026 |
Label confirmed. 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.
The Granada school that Benito Ferrer founded was carried forward explicitly by Eduardo Ferrer - not informally, but in the maker's own name. El Fragua is the forge: the instrument that confirms the transmission, twenty-five years after the founding master's death.
The story of this guitar is in the curriculum.
The Granada dynasty - Benito Ferrer, Eduardo Ferrer, and the transmission of the Santa Ana workshop tradition - is documented in the ANICETO University curriculum.
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