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I have already commented on some occasion that it was very common that the finishing of guitars, which was traditionally done with shellac before the appearance of synthetic varnishes, was carried out by skilled women, and that in some cases it would be the wives of...
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...
When my great-grandfather, José Ramírez I, opened his business on his own, after the separation from his brother Manuel, he offered for sale both the guitars handmade in his workshop and those made in Valencian factories: Julve, and later also Vicente Tatay, who made...
We recover these photographs of our historical workshop of Concepción Jerónima street number 2 published in Black and White in 1927. In them you can see José Ramírez II checking and revising the instruments as a teacher at that time. The best known official at that...
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...