Ricardo Sanchis Carpio is the third generation of the Sanchis dynasty of Masanasa, Valencia. He learned directly from his grandfather, Ricardo Sanchis Nácher, the dynasty's founding figure. El Abuelo, the grandfather's c.1945 instrument, is also in this collection. The grandson learned from the man who built it. El Nieto is what he built forty-four years later.
El Nieto and El Abuelo (Sanchis Nácher, c.1945) are the collection's Sanchis dynasty pair grandfather and grandson held simultaneously, forty-four years apart. The dynasty is four generations deep and still active in 2026. The c.1945 and 1989 production tiers are increasingly scarce in specialist trade. The middle generation is the standing gap.
Ricardo Sanchis Nácher (El Abuelo, c.1945) → Ricardo Sanchis Carpio (El Nieto, 1989) → Hermanos Sanchis López (sons, active 2026). The dynasty pair held in this collection documents the transmission of the Masanasa workshop tradition across two generations and forty-four years. The full lineage context is covered in the ANICETO University curriculum.
| Instrument Name | El Nieto · The Grandson |
| Maker | Ricardo Sanchis Carpio · Masanasa, Valencia |
| Year | 1989 · Signed label |
| School | Valencia · Sanchis dynasty third generation |
| Type | Flamenca Negra |
| Top | Spruce |
| Back & Sides | Cypress |
| Dynasty Role | Dynasty pair with El Abuelo (Sanchis Nácher c.1945) |
| Collection Role | Valencia School · Sanchis Dynasty |
| Acquired | 2025–2026 |
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 Valencia negra voice warmer and more rounded than the Andalusian schools is present in El Nieto's construction. The grandson built the way the grandfather built, in the same Masanasa workshop, with the same understanding of what a Valencia guitar is for. The dynasty pair documents that continuity across nearly half a century.
The story of this guitar is in the curriculum.
The Sanchis dynasty - its four generations, its Masanasa workshop tradition, and its place in the Valencia school - is documented in the ANICETO University curriculum.
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