Eduardo Ferrer · The Granada Dynasty
Eduardo Ferrer's full maker designation - Sobrino y Sucesor de Benito Ferrer - documents his explicit descent from the Granada school's founding patriarch.
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. Both generations are confirmed and held in the collection. Eduardo Ferrer took over the workshop when his uncle died in 1925 and ran it until 1988, teaching much of the next generation of Granada makers.
Granada Dynasty · Two Generations Confirmed
The two confirmed generations of the Granada dynasty are held here, documenting the transmission of the Santa Ana, Huerto del Loro workshop tradition. The full lineage context is covered in the ANICETO University curriculum.
Instrument Record
| Instrument Name | El Fragua · The Forge |
| Maker | Eduardo Ferrer Sobrino y Sucesor de Benito Ferrer · Santa Ana, Huerto del Loro, Granada |
| Year | 1950 · 10 March 1950 · Confirmed on label |
| School | Granada · Successor generation |
| Type | Flamenca Blanca |
| Top | Spruce |
| Back & Sides | Cypress |
| Dynasty | Held with La Sombra (Benito Ferrer 1925) · Granada dynasty confirmed |
| Collection Role | Granada School · Successor Generation Anchor |
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
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.
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 taken up in the ANICETO University curriculum, Module 2 · The Makers.
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