1967 Ramirez Classical Guitar specifications:
- Soundboard: Cedar; Back and Sides: CSAR
- Nut width: 54mm, String Length: 664mm
- Maker’s mark on inner heel: “M.T”, Mariano Tezanos
- Serial number: 2,049
Description:
This is a 1967 Ramirez Classical Guitar. This guitar was made in the same year by the same maker (Mariano Tezanos, “M.T.”) as the first Ramirez guitar that Segovia selected. It is one of perhaps a dozen or so made by M.T. in that year. It is as close to Segovia’s first Ramirez guitar as one can get, and so it is very satisfying to experience the sound of the guitar, much as Segovia likely did. The guitar has a firm, quintessentially Spanish voice, resonant, growling, very masculine.
The guitar is also from the first year that Jose Ramirez III began numbering instruments, which are said to have begun with “2,000”, because his family had been building for generations. So this guitar has a very low serial number relative to that start. The guitar was wonderfully and expertly restored in 2012. The top is cedar, and the back and sides are gloriously figures CSA Rosewood.
The body of the guitar is in CSAR and the soundboard is in cedar, a Ramirez innovation dating to the 1960’s. This innovation was born out of a shortage of aged spruce in those years, and since then cedar has become a mainstay as a soundboard wood for guitars. This guitar comes from the very beginning of this tradition, and it is like hearing the stroke of brilliance of using this tone wood for the very first time. Let this guitar take you back to the source!
You can read more about Ramirez guitars with the M.T. mark (their’s is from 1969) in this article from Classical Guitar Magazine.
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