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Old 06-24-2018, 08:09 PM
jonbutcheraxis jonbutcheraxis is offline
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Thank you, this is just the kind of info I'd hoped would surface. And your comments are completely born out by the guitars themselves. Are the present day Ramirez guitars like the 2CWE any good ? And Alhambra and Raimundo branded guitars ?

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Originally Posted by smwink View Post
According to info that used to be on the Ramirez site (you'll have to find a cached version now), both labels were introduced around 1957.

The round labels were the low end student and "tourist" models, outsourced to a number of shops. "Rondalla" refers to a group of plucked string musicians, often associated with folk or street music. To add to the confusion, Ramirez still occasionally uses this label, the George Harrison tribute model being a recent example. In that case, the label is representative of what was in Harrison's inexpensive Ramirez back in the day.

The rectangular Guitarras de Estudio also indicates an outsourced factory/workshop guitar, but generally higher quality than the round label. These were produced by Alhambra, Raimundo, and a few other well-known workshops.

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