Manuel Ramirez model 1912/ Hendrik van den Broek Concert gitaar
This classical concert guitar is made after a model of Manuel Ramirez 1912, owned bij the well known gitarist Emilion Pugol, who was a student of Francisco Tarrega.
The Manuel Ramirez guitar from 1912 was in my workshop in 2003 for restauration, at that time I made a drawing with all the important measurements during its restauration, the back of the guitar was removed for the inner restauration so I got all the time to measure and discribe all the details in my guitarplan.
This Guitar is carefully made after all the details from the original, all the historical items are used, like the small bridge with its preshaped bottom, the edge at the backside of the bridge, domed top, French polish laquer, typical Manuel Ramirez head, the complete guitar is glued with traditional bone glue, seven fan braced top made of spruce, mahogany back bracing, every piece of this guitar is handmade by skilled hands with more than 30 years experience in instrument making.
This concert guitar has a very nice timbre and has that typical magical Spanish sound of the great makers.
The guitar is made of the folowing woods :
- Top of the guitar is made of spruce
- Back and sides are made of Indian Rosewood
- Neck and head made of Spanish cedar
- Headstock is covered with Indian Rosewood
- Fingerboard ebony with 19 silver/nickel frets
- Bridge of Indian rosewood
- Bindings made of maple
- Bone topnut and bridge saddle
- Tuners from Rubner
- Guitarstrings Augustine Paragon medium
- Stringlength 65 cm, top nut width 51 mm
- Body dimensions : Total Length 98cm /Body / Length 48 cm / Thicknes rib max. 9,5 cm / Higher bout 27,6 cm/ Lower bout 35,6 cm
- Lightweight ABS case included.