Manuel Ramírez and his Torres

My great-granduncle, Manuel Ramírez de Galarreta, must have been a very interesting character and also very daring, because of the things that our father told my brother and me about him. And you only have to see the only portrait of him that we have (apart from the...

Serranito Farewell Tour 65 years on stage

    Víctor Monge Serranito has taken the brave decision to say goodbye to the stage and to his audience in a last great tour that began in the Paco de Lucía Festival in Algeciras and that has had its most important start in a festival and in a city very dear...

The Ramirez Labels of our handmade and studio guitars

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...

Spruce or cedar top guitars: We tell you the differences

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,...

Paco Vidal in Friends of the Guitar of Valencia

On Saturday 19th June 2021 we had the pleasure of attending the concert of our friend the guitarist Paco Vidal in one of the events organized by Friends of the Guitar of Valencia under the direction of Juan Grecos at its new headquarters in the hotel SH Valencia...

Ramírez Guitars headers

As many already know, the guitar headstock is like a signature, a sign of the guitar maker's identity, designed to be recognised without the need to see the label or any other identifying marks. So, today we show you the evolution of Ramírez guitar headstocks. José...

New models of handcrafted guitars

In Ramírez Guitars we have added 2 new models of handmade guitars to our collection, both very significant for their relationship with the history of our workshop. Learn about their characteristics and the peculiarities that define them! Segovia Model The Segovia...

What are Ramírez handmade guitars?

If we take into account the meaning of craftsmanship as the "art and technique of making or elaborating objects or products by hand, with simple apparatus and in a traditional way", we are talking about very different concepts to objects made in series, as is done in...

Black-and-white photographs of our workshop in 1927

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...

José Ramírez, the flamenco guitar that conquered the world

There is no doubt that it is to Andrés Segovia that we owe the full diffusion of the Spanish guitar throughout the world, a task that he undertook and concluded with a Ramírez instrument in his hands. Following in his footsteps, a stream of concert guitarists kept the...