2008 Jose Ramirez "1aF" CD/CY
Year | 2008 |
Top | Cedar |
Back & Sides | Cypress |
Scale Length | 656 mm |
Nut width | 53 mm |
Finish | Lacquer |
Country | Spain |
Luthier | Amalia Ramirez |
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This guitar was built in the famous Jose Ramirez workshop, which for over half a century has produced instruments performed on by countless professionals from Sting to Segovia, Chet Atkins to Sabicas and Lee Ritenour to Christopher Parkening.
This guitar is the top-of-the-line flamenco model from the esteemed Ramirez workshop which is suitable for both performance on a concert stage and for traditional flamenco playing with dancers and percussionists. It is a very lively instrument with excellent playability and volume; and has an authentic Spanish sound with a lot of bite, making it one of our favorite choices for the serious flamenco guitarist. This guitar has a cedar top which although rare for flamencos, gives the guitar extra volume and a deeper mid-range. Manolo Sanlucar is perhaps the most well known flamenco guitarist to play a Ramirez cedar-top.
For more information on Ramirez, be sure to read The Ramirez Family: Masters of the Guitar, or for information on the Ramirez family members, from Amalia Ramirez back to Jose I and for some interesting fact-checking on myths and facts about this legendary workshop.