La Zambra completes the collection's Granada school arc: La Sombra (Benito Ferrer, 1925), El Fragua (Eduardo Ferrer, 1950), La Zambra (Jesús Bellido, 2009). Three instruments, eighty-four years, one school. Bellido is a documented active Granada luthier. Label confirmed: Flamenca Especial Blanca No. 21, 2009.
The Granada school spans from Benito Ferrer's founding generation through Eduardo Ferrer's named succession and into the contemporary period Bellido works in. La Zambra is not a closing instrument. It is a living one, built by a maker still working in the same city, in the same tradition, using the same construction logic the school has maintained for a century.
La Sombra (Benito Ferrer, 1925, founding generation) · El Fragua (Eduardo Ferrer Sobrino y Sucesor de Benito Ferrer, 1950, successor generation) · La Zambra (Jesús Bellido, 2009, contemporary Granada). The collection holds three instruments spanning 84 years of Granada school production. The full lineage context is covered in the ANICETO University curriculum.
| Instrument Name | La Zambra · The Zambra - ancient Roma and Moorish celebration |
| Maker | Jesús Bellido · Granada |
| Year | 2009 · Flamenca Especial Blanca No. 21 |
| School | Granada · Contemporary voice |
| Type | Flamenca Blanca |
| Top | Spruce |
| Back & Sides | Cypress |
| Collection Role | Granada School · Third voice in school trio |
| 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 zambra (THAM-brah, Spanish: a form of musical celebration blending Roma and Moorish tradition, referred to as gitano-Moorish in flamenco scholarship) is among the oldest documented forms of Roma music in Andalusia, its roots reaching back to Granada before 1492. La Zambra's name carries that history. The Granada school built instruments for that tradition. This instrument still belongs to it.
The story of this guitar is in the curriculum.
The Granada school - its founding through Benito Ferrer, its succession through Eduardo Ferrer, and its contemporary voice - is documented in the ANICETO University curriculum.
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