Historical hints (C.12): Fair competition

Historical hints (C.12): Fair competition

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...
Historical hints (C.10): Ramírez and flamenco

Historical hints (C.10): Ramírez and flamenco

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...
Historical Hints (C.9): Studio Guitars

Historical Hints (C.9): Studio Guitars

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...
Historical Hints (C.8): The Auditorium guitar

Historical Hints (C.8): The Auditorium guitar

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...