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1974 Eduardo Ferrer Flamenco Guitar - Flamenca Negra - Granada Spain EXQUISITE !
Estimated price for orientation: 3 750 $
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Please note: This guitar comes from a tradition featured in the new documentary called Instrumental Places. Visit insrumentalplaces.com. And it was made by the luthier who trained them all, el "Maestro Decano" Eduardo Ferrer.Offers accepted !!
This gorgeous item is a historic, 100% authentic, Eduardo Ferrer flamenco guitar - "flamenca negra" from 1974 (Granada, Spain). The instrument features a perfectly quartered C top, I.R. back and sides, and BZR head plate and bridge. The guitar is in excellent condition. The finish is the original French polish and the sound is lyrical, loud, and very flamenco. The string length is a comfortable 662mm. You will not want to miss out on this vintage guitar. Originals of this quality from this luthier do not come around very often. Collectors usually keep these for a lifetime. I no longer play guitar due to arthritis and am letting my favorite guitars in 50 years of playing, go to another lucky player. The sound is everything. You will not be disappointed. This guitar will come with a very nice Metrocase. Winning bidder will add $200 for shipping and insurance. International buyers welcomed. Here is a brief bio of Eduardo Ferrer, who is known as the "maestro decano" or grand master of the Granada school of guitar building. He taught all of the major luthiers from this town including the great Jose Lopez Bellido, who was his apprentice for many years. His guitars sell for well over $10,000. Eduardo Ferrer Castillo (Granada, b. 1905- d. 198?)Eduardo Ferrer was born in 1905. When he was about ten or twelve years old he entered his uncle Benito Ferrer’s shop as an apprentice, he also attended seminar school for a time, thinking he might like to become a priest, but changed his mind. When his uncle died in 1925, Eduardo took over his shop. His life was one long adventure: from the time as an apprentice when he earned nothing, to the during the war when he sold a guitar for twenty pesetas– which seemed to be a fortune. As a luthier, his work followed closely that of his uncle. Although he tried various experiments, he kept returning to the tried and true traditional methods of Benito Ferrer and Antonio de Torres. It was his opinion that they had explored all there was to explore, and there was nothing new to invent. His importance as a luthier, however, also was as a teacher. Almost all of the guitar makers currently working in Granada either apprenticed with him or learned their art from those who did. His apprentices include José Castaño and Milan continue their studies with him after his uncle’s death; Juan López who died during the war, Miguel Robles, Manuel Fernández, Francisco Manuel Díaz, Manuel López Bellido, Antonio Marín, his own son José Ferrer, and many more. He also helped train classical guitar makers in Japan, he spent 3 months each year between 1966-1968 in Japan showing Yamaha workers how to build guitars.
Description
Please note: This guitar comes from a tradition featured in the new documentary called Instrumental Places. Visit insrumentalplaces.com. And it was made by the luthier who trained them all, el "Maestro Decano" Eduardo Ferrer.
Offers accepted !!
This gorgeous item is a historic, 100% authentic, Eduardo Ferrer flamenco guitar - "flamenca negra" from 1974 (Granada, Spain). The instrument features a perfectly quartered C top, I.R. back and sides, and BZR head plate and bridge. The guitar is in excellent condition. The finish is the original French polish and the sound is lyrical, loud, and very flamenco. The string length is a comfortable 662mm. You will not want to miss out on this vintage guitar. Originals of this quality from this luthier do not come around very often. Collectors usually keep these for a lifetime. I no longer play guitar due to arthritis and am letting my favorite guitars in 50 years of playing, go to another lucky player. The sound is everything. You will not be disappointed. This guitar will come with a very nice Metrocase. Winning bidder will add $200 for shipping and insurance. International buyers welcomed. Here is a brief bio of Eduardo Ferrer, who is known as the "maestro decano" or grand master of the Granada school of guitar building. He taught all of the major luthiers from this town including the great Jose Lopez Bellido, who was his apprentice for many years. His guitars sell for well over $10,000.
Eduardo Ferrer Castillo (Granada, b. 1905- d. 198?)Eduardo Ferrer was born in 1905. When he was about ten or twelve years old he entered his uncle Benito Ferrer’s shop as an apprentice, he also attended seminar school for a time, thinking he might like to become a priest, but changed his mind. When his uncle died in 1925, Eduardo took over his shop. His life was one long adventure: from the time as an apprentice when he earned nothing, to the during the war when he sold a guitar for twenty pesetas– which seemed to be a fortune. As a luthier, his work followed closely that of his uncle. Although he tried various experiments, he kept returning to the tried and true traditional methods of Benito Ferrer and Antonio de Torres. It was his opinion that they had explored all there was to explore, and there was nothing new to invent. His importance as a luthier, however, also was as a teacher. Almost all of the guitar makers currently working in Granada either apprenticed with him or learned their art from those who did. His apprentices include José Castaño and Milan continue their studies with him after his uncle’s death; Juan López who died during the war, Miguel Robles, Manuel Fernández, Francisco Manuel Díaz, Manuel López Bellido, Antonio Marín, his own son José Ferrer, and many more. He also helped train classical guitar makers in Japan, he spent 3 months each year between 1966-1968 in Japan showing Yamaha workers how to build guitars.