{"id":33624,"date":"2018-01-08T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarrasramirez.com\/historical-hints-c-9-studio-guitars\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T07:00:21","slug":"historical-hints-c-9-studio-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarrasramirez.com\/en\/historical-hints-c-9-studio-guitars\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Hints (C.9): Studio Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my great-grand father, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez I<\/a>, opened his shop in 1882, he did not only sell the guitars done in his workshop<\/a> (there were different prices according to the complexity of its construction and the quality of the materials) but he also sold a selection of studio models made in factories, with much more affordable prices, thus offering a wide range of possibilities<\/strong> for the customers according to their preferences and economic availability. Moreover, due to their comfort, they are more adequate for beginners than professional guitars.<\/p>\n

Labels on studio guitars<\/h2>\n

Studio guitars, made in factories, were always revised and adjusted in his workshop to make sure that they had quality enough to be sold.<\/p>\n

At the beginning, only guitars constructed in his workshop had his label, in studio guitars the label of the manufacturer was kept. However, he started to have problems when some customers came complaining about flaws in their guitars, assuring they had been bought in his shop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As they had the manufacturer label and not his and even if he was sure that he had not sold any guitar in bad condition, he could not prove it, so he chose to put a label specially designed for those models.<\/strong> This way, the label with his name was warranty that these guitars had been sold in his shop and their quality was backed-up.<\/p>\n

Since then, we have continued doing the same. This way we make sure that these guitars have not only been sold in our shop, but also they have gone through a quality control and we have adjusted<\/strong>, touched up and revised them to leave them in good condition to sell them according to our quality standards.<\/p>\n

Studio guitars with Ram\u00edrez stamp<\/h2>\n

My grandfather, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez II<\/a>, ordered some models especially made for him to Vicente Tatay, a manufacturer of the time; they were sold in our shop for quite some time although I haven\u2019t got the exact dates. They were no longer made in the 50\u2019s, except for one model that was kept until the 70\u2019s. There were three models:<\/p>\n