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When my great-granduncle Manuel Ramírez died, his journeymen, Modesto Borreguero, Santos Hernández and Domingo Esteso, continued for some years in his workshop with Manuel Ramírez's widow. Filomena Vera Cervelló, Manuel's widow, as far as we know, was not a guitar...
I grew up hearing about the defects in the woods used in guitars, the knots, the cocas, the veins of irregular tones... and for me it became something quite normal until I began to see that woods whose appearance was not adequate were discarded in the search for an...
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 guitar. And lately, and through different channels, I have received the information that some believe that this guitar...
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 build with care and also to listen, that is to say, to achieve what the musician is looking for. We are a family workshop...
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 José Ramírez I; when the flamenco guitarists of his time (the end of 1800) asked him to make a guitar with enough power to...
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 prices according to the complexity of its construction and the quality of the materials) but he also sold a selection of...
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 “sandwich”, to create a small air chamber between two fine glued sheets on both sides of the aforementioned material. It is...
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 concert he had agreed to give in the Ateneo of Madrid. His entrance into the guitar shop should have been impressive due...
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 crossroads of culture, music, commerce ... among France, the Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja and Castilla, and located in...
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 because I’ve lived it myself from the beginning, step by step, until nowadays, leaving delicately aside the years it implies...
Here we have some funny anecdotes related to the guitar. To have some fun. With no other hope. It is only an invitation to have a nice time. This is a sale For those who didn’t know the shop in Concepción Jerónima 2, I will describe it briefly. It was a two-story...
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 to do his aurea guitar. He knew that “golden section” has been frequently used in paint as well as in classical...
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; here Manuel’s father, whose name was Domingo, lived with his family for some years apparently due to the construction...
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; apparently, it is said that from the forties on the making of Ramírez guitars, as pieces of furniture, started to improve,...