2016 Jose Ramirez "Auditorio Trio" CD/IN

Year	2016
Top	Cedar
Back & Sides	Indian Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 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.

We are very happy to say that the current range and variety of concert Ramirez guitars are among the best we've seen from them in many years. They are truly outstanding performance instruments by any standard. This is the "Auditorio Trio" model - the latest development in the evolution of the Auditorio models. It is essentially the famous "1a", but featuring a modern double top (a "nomex-sandwich") soundboard design, double sides with honeycomb and double back with honeycomb as the top. The sides and back are Indian rosewood outside and cypress inside, following the traditional Ramirez formula. As far as we know, this is the first guitar that has double sides and back with honeycomb. This new system, as said by many guitarists who have played it, makes the guitar player feel inside the sound, not only the projection, but also surrounding the player. A truly explosive and fun guitar to play, and a perfect compromise between traditional and modern.

In the words of Amalia Ramirez:

The Auditorio guitar was born, as a project, in 2006, when we made the fist prototypes. I was making my experiments with the called double top using nomex, and I knew that the first luthier who ever started using this material was Gernot Wagner. For this reason I contacted him, and he was very kind helping me since the very beginning to let me know how to work with it. He even came to my workshop to make a top with us. After this,my guitar makers and me have been making some changes to adapt this system to our own criteria, techniques and design, until we got what we were looking for.The double top helps get a better projection and sustain. However, it does not improve the quality. If the guitar has a good sound, then it will give it more power, but if the sound of the guitar is not good, then it will be more powerful but with a poor sound.My intention was to keep the personality of Ramírez guitars, and we have really done it, so we have the sweetness, depth and richness, as well as the balanced sound that is characteristic of Ramirez, adding more power, wideness and sustain. The best things of our guitars are even more noticeable with this new technique. It takes much more work, because building a double top is very delicate and takes a long time, but it is well worth the effort.

-Amalia Ramirez

A hardshell case is included with this guitar.

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.