In time, however, he began to evolve his own designs. Already familiar with tools, woods, and having studied a little about acoustics, without any apprenticeship, he began to copy the guitars of Santos Hernandez. He did this work until the late 1930s, when he decided to build guitars. Like many guitar makers, Manuel de la Chica began as a cabinet maker. Manuel de la Chica was a Granada maker who was born in 1911. He was a watchmaker by profession, but built guitars in his spare time. 1800s-1820s)Īugustine Caro Riaño was active in Granada in the first quarter of the 19th century. As Baza is a small provincial town, Checa made guitars for other makers, notably for Gerundino Fernandez, Jose Ramirez, Luis Aróstegui, and Benito Ferrer.Īugustine Caro Riaño (Granada, active c. Pedro Martinez Peñalver started with him as an apprentice in 1962, and took over his workshop after his death in 1977. He trained his sons Jose and Vicente Checa, Vicente Perez Checa, Antonio Ruiz, and Pedro Martínez Peñalver. During his life he was a renowned maker, and had won a first prize medal for his guitars at the International Exposition in Madrid in 1953 as well as first prize later in an exposition in Ronda. Born in 1914, Alfonso Checa Plaza was a guitar maker from Baza, a town in the province of Granada, who opened his workshop in 1935.
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