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It is no coincidence that the guitar found its place in the circles dedicated to salon music, cafés, small theatres and serenades in the palaces of noble amateurs, a phenomenon which, following the line marked by the French Revolution, took place in Vienna and Paris...
Between the 1950s and 1960s, José Ramírez III, filled several notebooks of graph paper with various designs for the mosaics of his guitars. Some of them became famous and were copied by guitar makers, but not by artisan guitar makers, as the mosaics are, like the...
It was 2011 when I had one of those existential crises that we all go through at some point in our lives. Searching for my passion Since I was a child I learned to love guitars, because I perceived day by day the love that my father felt for them. And although at the...
Recently, we received an interview with Narciso Yepes in which the interviewer inserted a telephone intervention by my father, José Ramírez III, who was unable to attend in person, but whose intervention was succulent and instructive. In the interview, Yepes, probably...
The period in which my father, José Ramírez III, dedicated the most time to experimentation was between the 50s and the 70s. And, of course, the period to investigate with the varnishes arrived. At that time, the finish that was used on guitars, traditionally, was...
We are extremely lucky to have the memory —when it fails us or we fail to have it because we did not live at that time— of our historic store manager Miguel Martínez, a worker who retired in 2000 and was the second generation in our company, since his father, Jesús...
We bring you an article written by our friend the musicologist Xosé Crisanto Gándara Eiroa, where he tells us one of the best-known anecdotes of the Ramírez Guitars. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Your interior on the screens On 14 September 1964, the film Qué...
Some time ago Google selected us as an example of small business digitalisation in the Community of Madrid thanks to the actions we put in place to start the digital transformation process of Guitarras Ramírez. This led other people to get to know us, to stay...
Today we are going to talk about the labels of the guitars handmade in our workshop, our Ramírez Labels. Until 1967 there was no real control of the labels, therefore, the dates will be approximate and surely there are some labels that are not reflected in this...
Cristina Ramírez explains, in the video below, the differences between a classical guitar and a flamenco guitar. Both are Spanish guitars, but the fundamental difference can be found both in the woods and in the construction. What are the differences between a...
Many years ago, I had a strange dream in which, to make a long story short, Rank Xerox's daughter had to take care of certain matters relating to her father. Of course, at the time, it did not occur to me that the trademark of a photocopier could be related to the...
In this article, Cristina Ramírez and Adrián Baratech will tell us the differences between a spruce or cedar top guitar. Do you want to discover them? Keep reading 😉 What is the difference between a guitar with a cedar top and one with a spruce top? For this purpose,...
At the end of the 19th century, Luis and Simón Ramírez printed a series of phonographic cylinders with the guitar and the bandurria as protagonists. Of José Simón Ramírez de Galarreta y Pernías 'José Ramírez II' (1885-1957) and Luis Ramírez de Galarreta y Pernías...
The association of the "noble art of violeros, guitar makers and all kinds of stringed instruments" was founded in Madrid in 1761 by the violero Julián Fornieles and Lorenzo Alonso, and is the origin of the so-called Escuela de Madrid de Constructores de Guitarras. ...
When I talk about the founder of our family saga of guitar makers, my great-grandfather José Ramírez I, I like to refer to him as the great-great-grandfather, because in short he is the great-great-grandfather of my nephews, and because great-great-grandfather is a...
As a centenary company, we have inherited from previous generations wood that we have stored since the 1950s. In the construction of our handmade instruments we use wood that have had a natural drying, since this provides stability to changes in humidity and the...
I have been asked several times if I was the first woman guitar maker, and at first, I thought I was. Of course, it was known that in the guitar workshops it was quite normal for there to be women who varnished with gomalaca with a stump, even sometimes the wives of...
Thanks to Bruce Berkow for this wonderful photo taken in 1967 at the front of our store. How beautiful the centre of Madrid was back then! With its shops and neighbourhood places, with its differences with respect to other cities, with its personality... At that time...
Few festivals have shown such an interesting vision on the craft of musical instruments, Música no Claustro has given us an enriching space for the growth and enrichment of our crafts, providing a space for debate and coexistence. From the problems of wood, through...