1992 Ignacio Fleta CD/IN (ex Angel Romero)

Year	1992
Top	Cedar
Back & Sides	Indian Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Spain
Luthier	Ignacio Fleta

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1992 Ignacio Fleta CD/IN (ex Angel Romero)

Angel Romero - 1992 Ignacio Fleta e Hijos (Part 1)

Angel Romero - 1992 Ignacio Fleta e Hijos (Part 2)

Description

This 1992 Ignacio Fleta is a classical guitar with a cedar top and Indian rosewood back and sides – "La Princesa", made in Barcelona by Francisco and Gabriel Fleta and dedicated to Angel Romero.

"La Princesa": Angel Romero's 1992 Fleta

Angel Romero has been this guitar's first and only owner to date. After it was built, Gabriel and Francisco Fleta named it "La Princesa" as part of its dedication to Angel – see the videos below to hear Angel tell the story himself.

Sound

This Fleta has everything one could ask of the workshop's very best: tremendous power, perfect balance, a deep, warm tone and plenty of clarity between voices in every register. It delivers all of this with great, bold style, and it takes only a few seconds of playing to understand why Angel had to have it the moment he first encountered it.

Fletas have long been at home in the Romero family, and few carry a story like this one. With its sound and its provenance, this is a Fleta of real distinction for collector and performer alike.

Background

Ignacio Fleta: Master Guitar Maker of Barcelona

For performers and collectors alike, the name Ignacio Fleta (1897–1977) ranks among the elite handful of 20th-century luthiers. Trained in Barcelona as a maker of violins and cellos, he built mainly bowed instruments from the late 1920s until 1955, when he decided to devote himself to the guitar. Countless scores of the finest players in the world have played his instruments – among them Andrés Segovia, John Williams, Angel Romero, Turibio Santos, Alirio Díaz and Marcelo Kayath.

Ignacio Fleta e Hijos: Three Generations

By the mid-1960s Fleta's sons, Francisco (1925–2003) and Gabriel (1929–2013), had become his partners in the workshop – which is why the labels from then on read "Ignacio Fleta e hijos" (Ignacio Fleta and sons). After Ignacio's death in 1977 the brothers carried on, and today Gabriel's son, Gabriel Fleta Jr., continues the family workshop in its third generation. Many dozens of Fletas have passed through our doors over the years.