Salvador Sancho ~1915 outstanding Torres-style guitar, built with high-quality materials in the finely decorated style of Valencia guitars.
Salvador Sáncho Soler (1874-1942) was a guitar maker from Valencia. In 1882, at the age of 12, he seems to have been apprenticed to Vicente Tatay Alabau. In 1889 he began to build his own guitars and soon after founded the company Salvador Sancho, S.C.
Around 1905, he went to Argentina with his brother. A year later, Sancho was in Brazil. His ventures in Brazil were so successful that a street in San Pao was named after him. Nevertheless, he returned to Valencia in 1914 and opened a new workshop at Carrera de San Luis 7, where this guitar was finally made around 1915.
This guitar is a real masterpiece. It is very well built and beautifully decorated.
The materials are of very high quality. The top is made of fine spruce, the back and sides of rosewood. The nut width is 50 mm and the scale length is 652 mm.
Built in the style of a Torres guitar, the sound is absolutely outstanding.
It has the classic sound of an old master guitar: woody, dark with a friendly vintage note.
Above all, the guitar is powerful and responds quickly. The sound quality can be described as mystical with an almost magical appeal. The guitar fills the whole room with the most beautiful tones and impresses with a breathtaking variety of timbres.
An absolutely noble instrument at concert level - very finely built for the highest tonal demands.
The guitar has been very professionally restored and is in remarkably good condition. The action is low and the guitar plays with great ease.
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