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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...