La Voz is signed and numbered by Juan Hernández, dated July 13, 2006. Juan Hernández builds in Valencia with limited annual production and no mass market presence. Near mint preservation means it sounds today exactly the way he built it to sound.
Juan Hernández operates an active Valencia workshop. His instruments surface infrequently in specialist trade at this condition level. The negra construction gives La Voz the sustained, full voice the name carries. It was built for the slower flamenco forms, the ones that require the guitar to hold a note long enough to mean something.
La Voz is one of five Valencia school instruments in the collection, alongside El Abuelo (Sanchis Nácher, c.1945), El Nieto (Sanchis Carpio, 1989), La Castellana (Alhambra, 2002), and La Serena (Alhambra, 2024). The Valencia school is the most deeply represented in the collection. The full lineage context is covered in the ANICETO University curriculum.
| Instrument Name | La Voz · The Voice |
| Maker | Juan Hernández · Valencia |
| Year | 2006 · Signed and numbered · July 13, 2006 |
| School | Valencia |
| Type | Flamenca Negra |
| Top | Spruce |
| Back & Sides | Rosewood |
| Collection Role | Valencia School · Signed Production |
| Acquired | Early 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.
La Voz carries the warm, full voice of the Valencia negra tradition. Near mint preservation means its voice is exactly what Juan Hernández built. No decades of play compression, no accumulated wear softening the attack. A signed, numbered instrument at this condition level from a maker with limited annual production does not reappear often.
The story of this guitar is in the curriculum.
The Valencia school and its five-instrument representation in the collection is documented in the ANICETO University curriculum.
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