1960 Ignacio Fleta SP/IN

This 1960 Ignacio Fleta is a classical guitar with a spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides from Fleta's Barcelona workshop, refinished in lacquer after expert repairs to the top.

A 1960 Fleta in Indian Rosewood

Like most Fletas of these years, it pairs a spruce soundboard with Indian rosewood for the back and sides.

Sound and Playability

As expected, it sounds wonderful: deep, layered and balanced, with a big dynamic range and a firmness in the fundamental that serves the player well on large stages. Like many Fletas of this period it has a slender, easy neck – a guitar you can play for hours without fatigue.

From Fleta's celebrated spruce period – the years when Segovia and Williams concertized and recorded on his guitars – this has the sound that made the name Fleta legendary.

Condition

The guitar does have 3 cracks (on the top only) that have been expertly repaired and re-finished in lacquer, but it is otherwise in great shape for an instrument with over 60 years of playing on it.

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.