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Eleven Schools  ·  Seven Dynasties  ·  115 Years

The ANICETO Collection

A museum-grade private archive of Spanish flamenco guitars spanning eleven regional schools, seven maker dynasties, and over a century of Andalusian craftsmanship.

Also: 180-lesson curriculum, the complete history of flamenco guitar, built from these instruments.

24Instruments
11Regional Schools
115Years · 1909–2024
7Dynasty Pairs
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The Governing Standard

"A museum-level flamenco guitar collection is not assembled by instinct, speed, or reputation. It is built through evidence, historical truth, foresight, and preservation discipline."

  • Truth over hype: every claim sourced or labeled
  • Lineage over novelty: school and dynasty first
  • Preservation over exploitation: reversible interventions only
  • Restraint over accumulation: gaps stay open until right
  • Signal over noise: coherence over breadth
  • Cultural belonging over appropriation: Gitano, Moorish, and Andalusian heritage. Student of the tradition, not above it.

Eleven Schools · One Open

A Map of Andalusian Making

Granada
✓ Three Deep
Ferrer 1925 · E.Ferrer 1950 · Bellido 2009
Madrid
✓ Four Deep
Ramírez I 1909 · Ramírez II 1925 · Ramírez 1955 · Conde 2002
Valencia
✓ Five Deep
Nácher c.1945 · Carpio 1989 · Julia 2002 · Hernández 2006 · Mengual 2024
Almería
✓ Dynasty Pair
Gerundino Fernández 1980 · Eladio Fernández 1989 · Torres lineage
Sevilla
✓ Anchored
Viuda Delclos 1940s · Original pegs
Algodonales
✓ Two Deep
Bernal Senior 1995 · Rafa de Valeriano 2005
Baza
✓ Two Deep
Checa 1969 · Peñalver 1985
Jaén
✓ Anchored
Peña Fernández 1959 · Marmolejo
Málaga
✓ Anchored
José Luis Marín 1982 · Marín dynasty
Jerez
✓ Anchored
David Peña Vargas 2020 · Modelo Taranto

Selected Instruments

From the Archive

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Before the Guitar
The First · Origin Instrument · Pre-Collection

A Syrian or Lebanese oud, c.1901, the acoustic ancestor of everything in the collection. Apricot bowl, hand-carved arabesque rosette with individually differentiated birds, full-length bone neck inlay. The maker's identity lives in an unread line of Arabic inscription. Before the guitar was the oud. Before Spain was al-Andalus.

TypeArabic Oud · Syrian or Lebanese
Datec.1901 · Interior inscription
AttributionMaster-commission tier · Maker unidentified
RosetteHand-carved bone or ivory · Individual bird figures
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ANICETO University

What the guitar is. Where it came from. Why it sounds the way it does.

180 lessons. Six modules. The complete story of flamenco, from the oud in 8th-century Andalucía to the hands of Paco de Lucía.

Built from the instruments in this archive. Taught through the makers, the regions, and the music that shaped them.

180Lessons
6Modules
24Instruments
115+Years Spanned
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Before Spain

The lesson that starts before the guitar exists. What the oud became over 1,300 years, and why that history lives inside every flamenco guitar in this archive. No signup. The right place to begin.

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