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Guitar handcrafted in the workshop of Jose Ramirez, a reproduction of the instrument made by Manuel Ramirez on show in the Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nueva York.
Technical Specifications
Scale Length
654 mm
Wood
Top: German Spruce
Back and sides: in best quality Rosewood
Fingerboard: Ebony
Neck: Cedar
Bridge
Rosewood
Nut and Saddle Material
Bone
Finish
French Polish
Machine Heads
Rodgers
Additional Information
In the early nineties, my brother Jose Ramirez IV and I traveled to New York in order to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to see the guitar handcrafted by our granduncle Manuel Ramirez, which he gave to Andres Segovia and is now on exhibit in the Museum. We were provided with an office in the Museum, set up to enable us to work with the guitar. We took photographs and measurements, as our initial intention was to make a copy of his historic instrument. We were motivated by, among other things, our curiosity to learn how this guitar sounded when it was first made - (the guitar had never been repaired), - before the wood was affected by cracking and unglued - and the negative impact on the sound of the instrument arising from these circumstances.
However, we put the project on hold until the year 2001, when I reactivated it through a fresh visit to the Metropolitan Museum with one of the craftsmen from my workshop and my assistant. Once again we were treated magnificently by the Musical Instruments section of the Museum, who provided us with all of the information they had available on the guitar made by Manuel Ram?rez. We spent an entire morning taking detailed measurements once again, drawing the patterns for the design and taking photographs, in order to finish the task I began years before together with my brother.
This guitar, which originally had 11 strings, as can be detected from a few details evident in its making, was crafted under a commission by Manj?n, a well known guitarist of the time who, once the instrument was finished, began to find fault with one thing to another, probably with the intention of haggling over the price. This, as is easy to imagine, was not at all to Manuel's liking and he was not prepared to lower the price.
One day, Manuel was in his workshop at number 10 Arlab?n Street, conversing with a professor of violin from the Royal Conservatory, when a young man entered the workshop, dressed in rather extravagant attire, cloaked in a cape and carrying an impressive cane, which, as he himself explained, came in handy to ward off muggers. He wanted to know whether he could rent a guitar for a concert he had to give. Manuel, who, as I understand, had a great sense of humor - as well as a very bad temper - found the proposal to rent a guitar quite amusing, bearing in mind the young man's appearance, and, addressing him as a "youngster" in a tone of grandiloquence to lend the occasion an atmosphere of pomp and circumstance, he decided to go along with the joke and invited him to try out any of the guitars in the workshop.
What Manuel and his visitor, the professor of violin, heard was so marvelous that Manuel took the guitar away from the young man, saying that it was not right for him, and gave him the Manj?n guitar. The young soloist was extremely enthused by the guitar and treated them to a delightful recital. The effect was such that Manuel, impressed by what he had heard, gave the guitar as a gift to the as yet unknown Andres Segovia, who used it for many years in his concerts*. And this is the very same guitar that he donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art prior to his death, and which we are now reproducing in a limited series to enable guitar lovers to enjoy the sound of this legendary instrument, considering also, that in observance of Segovia's wishes, the original guitar must never be played ever again.
According to Segovia, this guitar was made by Santos Hern?ndez when he was employed as a craftsman by Manuel Ramirez, and, in accordance with the traditional manner of the workshops devoted to handcrafted instruments, he was required to follow the guidelines, technique and design established by the master craftsman, in this case, Manuel Ramirez, who in turn was responsible for giving the stamp of approval to all of the instruments made under his roof, as is still the case in the traditional handcrafted instrument workshops.
* This anecdote has been published on several occasions by different authors. The version I have recounted here is the one passed on to me by my father, exactly as he heard it from Andres Segovia himself during one of their lengthy conversations on their shared favorite subject.
- Amalia Ramirez
Strings
Ramirez High tension
Case
Included
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