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Ramírez Guitars (Guitarras Ramírez in Spanish) is a Spanish manufacturer of professional, concert-quality classical and flamenco guitars. Five generations of the Ramírez family have produced Ramirez guitars.
José Ramírez. José Ramírez (1858–1923) was a Spanish luthier, the founder of Ramírez Guitars and of the Spanish luthier dynasty who continue to run it. His grandson José Ramírez III was in turn head of the company, and a noted innovator who made significant changes to the classical guitar.
He continued to experiment until the end of his life, and to collaborate with top performers, including younger performers and those from other musical traditions. With Marcel Dadi, he designed a classical guitar with a cutaway body, still in production. In 1983, he designed the "camara" guitar, with the intention of eliminating the wolf notes.
The ten string extended-range classical guitar, with fully chromatic, sympathetic string resonance was conceived in 1963 [a] by Narciso Yepes, and constructed by José Ramírez [III]. [2] This instrument is sometimes referred to as the "modern" 10-string guitar [ b ] (or the "Yepes guitar" [ 3 ] ) to differentiate it from ten-stringed harp ...
These performances bought Manuel Ramírez's style of guitar and Hernandez's skill to the notice of other players. The guitar that Ramírez gave Segovia was gifted by Segovia's widow, Emilita to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it now resides. [1] The guitar given by Manuel Ramírez to Andrés Segovia in 1912.
The liner notes has a photo of Oldfield surrounded by some of his guitars, which he used on the album. From the classical (Spanish acoustic) guitar at the top (and slightly to the right) going clockwise, the guitars are as follows: José Ramírez Classical guitar; Fender Stratocaster, salmon pink (1962) Martin O-45 Parlour Guitar