It is not the first time that authorship of creation is attributed to people who have had nothing to do with it, as is the case with the 10-string...

The work of a guitar maker or instrument builder is very beautiful: it requires time to become skilled with the tool, to understand the wood, to...

The romance between Ramírez guitar makers and flamenco dates back, as long as my family memory can remember, at the time of my great-grandfather...

When my great-grand father, José Ramírez I, opened his shop in 1882, he did not only sell the guitars done in his workshop (there were different...

In the year 2001 I heard for the first time about a new material called Nomex, and about its utilization in the double top, which is also called...

It was 1913 when the young Andrés Segovia went to Manuel Ramírez’s workshop in Arlabán Street; his intention was to get a high-quality guitar for a...

It all started in  Salvatierra of Alava, a town founded in 1256 by Alfonso X the Wise, a villa of great importance in the eighteenth century, a...

March 14th 2013 has been set as a memorable date, a day to celebrate in Casa Ramírez. And if I am especially keen on telling this story, it is...

My father used to tell that, among all the experiments he did when he was a skilled worker of the first class in his father’s workshop, he decided...

Manuel Ramírez was born on May 26th, 1864 at 11pm in Alhama de Aragón, my father describes this village as a beautiful and impressive Aragón’s town;...

Some time ago, I had an enjoyable lunch with a colleague guitar maker, during the conversation something came up which I had never heard before;...