Hermanos Conde are world famous luthiers of classical

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 and flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 guitars.
The Conde dynasty was founded by Domingo Esteso

Domingo Esteso

Domingo Esteso was a luthier who trained under Manuel Ramírez. His nephews, Faustino and Mariano Conde inherited his workshop and changed the name to Conde Hermanos....

 in 1915 in Madrid.
Esteso in turn trained his nephews Faustino and
Mariano Conde Sr. Later, Julio Conde was trained by his own brothers.

Domingo Esteso died in 1937, since then the three Conde Brothers continued working for Esteso's widow under the name of "Viuda y Sobrinos de Esteso" (Esteso's Widow and Nephews) until 1960.

Since 1960 until 1988-89 they took over the shop and called themselves "Sobrinos de Domingo Esteso Conde Hermanos" (Esteso's Nephews, Conde Brothers) or "Hermanos Conde Sobrinos de Domingo Esteso" (Conde Brothers, Esteso's Nephews).

Mariano Sr. later established his own shop close to the Royal Theatre, calling it "Conde Hermanos Sucesores Sobrinos de Esteso" at Calle Felipe V, 2 in Madrid. His two sons, (Felipe, born in 1957 and Mariano Jr., born 1959) began their apprenticeship with their father and uncle Faustino when they were about 15 y.o. Faustino died in 1988 and Mariano Sr. in 1989.

Famous Flamenco guitarists such as Paco de Lucía

Paco de Lucía

Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez , is a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist and composer. He is considered by many to be one of the finest guitarists in the world and the greatest guitarist of the flamenco genre...

, Manolo de Huelva, Niño Ricardo

Niño Ricardo

Niño Ricardo , born as Manuel Serrapí, was a Flamenco composer, considered by some sources as the most accomplished flamenco player of his day. He played a significant part in the evolution of the flamenco guitar. He lived in the city center of Sevilla...

, Melchor de Marchena, Sabicas

Sabicas

Sabicas was a Flamenco guitarist, of Romani origin, who was born in 1912 in Pamplona, Spain and died in 14 April 1990 in New York....

, Mario Escudero

Mario Escudero

Mario Escudero, full name Mario Escudero Valero Jimenez Valverde, is one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s...

, Esteban de Sanlucar, Regino Sainz de la Maza

Regino Sainz de la Maza

Regino Sainz de la Maza y Ruiz was a Spanish classical guitarist.At age ten, he got his first guitar and started his musical studies with Santiago Landache , José Nicolás Quesada , and Eugenio Rodríguez Pascual...

, Oscar Herrero

Oscar Herrero

Oscar Herrero is a Flamenco guitarist from Spain. He was born in Tomelloso on 12th March 1959.Oscar Herrero has authored several flamenco guitar teaching DVDs and diadactic text books. Among them:Text books...

, Roberto Morón, José Manuel Cañizares, Rafael Riqueni

Rafael Riqueni

Rafael Riqueni is one of Spain's top flamenco guitarists. Accomplished from a very young age, at just fifteen years old he was awarded the Ramón Montoya Prize in the Concurso Nacional in Córdoba....

, Enrique de Melchor and other styles guitarist such as Al Di Meola

Al Di Meola

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, Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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, Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens

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, John Williams (guitarist)

John Williams (guitarist)

John Christopher Williams is an Australian classical guitarist, and a long-term resident of the United Kingdom. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award win in the 'Best Chamber Music Performance' category with Julian Bream for Julian and John .-Biography:John Williams was born on 24 April 1941 in...

, Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...

, David Byrne

David Byrne (musician)

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, Toninho Horta

Toninho Horta

Toninho Horta is a virtuoso electric and nylon-string guitar player; his music could be defined as Brazilian music.He has developed his own very personal style...

, Wayne Wesley Johnson… have played and still play with the worldwide known guitars of
Hermanos Conde.

Felipe and Mariano Conde (sons of Mariano Conde Sr.) manufactured flamenco guitars in their workshop at Felipe V St. nº 2 in Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

 close to the Teatro Real

Teatro Real

The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.-History:...

 (Royal Theatre) and the Palacio Real (Royal Palace). They were known as "Conde Hermanos Sucesores Sobrinos de Esteso" (Conde Brothers - Esteso's Nephews Successors)

Nowadays Felipe and Mariano have broken the business association. They work in different workshops and they sell different models of guitars.

The actual Felipe Conde's shop is placed in Arrieta 4, in front of the Royal Theatre and very close to the old shop in Felipe V.

External links

• http://www.felipeconde.es
• http://www.condehermanos.com