Learn Lutherie & Instrument-making in Granada

Honest level: Beginner -> Master luthier — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Antonio Marín Montero
• José Marín Plazuelo

Schools in Granada

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Taller de Antonio Marín Montero
  Master luthier workshop (informal apprenticeship)
  The Granada workshop of master luthier Antonio Marín Montero (born 1933) is a hand-built classical and flamenco guitar atelier that has trained disciples including his nephew José Marín Plazuelo and José González López, though it offers no formal enrolled course.
• Taller de José Marín Plazuelo
  Master luthier workshop (informal apprenticeship)
  José Marín Plazuelo, nephew and pupil of Antonio Marín Montero, builds classical and flamenco guitars by traditional methods in a workshop near the Alhambra in central Granada, working alongside his uncle and José González López.
• Casa Ferrer (Granada guitar-making house)
  Granada guitar-making workshop (Guitarrería Casa Ferrer)
  Guitarrería Casa Ferrer, founded in 1875 by Benito Ferrer on Cuesta de Gomérez, is one of Spain's oldest guitar-making houses and a training ground that has shaped generations of Granada luthiers, now run by the fourth-generation Durán Ferrer family.
  https://guitarreriacasaferrer.com/historia.php

The credential

Diploma of the Cremona International Violin Making School, or a recognized maestro liutaio apprenticeship · Certifying body: Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria (Cremona diploma) / traditional workshop apprenticeship

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Lutherie & Instrument-making

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.