Extremely rare 10-string guitar by Jose Ramirez from 1982 - it sounds really good!
This guitar was built in the famous workshop of Jose Ramirez III, which has been making instruments for over half a century and on which countless professionals have played, from Sting to Segovia, Chet Atkins to Sabicas and Lee Ritenour to Christopher Parkening.
Popularized over the years by a number of great players such as Narciso Yepes, Vincenzo Macaluso and Goran Sollscher, the 10-string guitar has proven to be a versatile instrument, especially for performing repertoire that doesn't quite „fit“ within the range of a standard six-string guitar.
Baroque lute music - most popularly Bach and Weiss - requires most 6-string guitarists to transpose the bass notes an octave up or down at points that interrupt the original musical flow intended by the composer. The 10-string guitar solves many such inconveniences and also allows the performance of arrangements of larger pieces originally written for piano and orchestra.
The tone of this guitar has the essential warm, mysterious and atmospheric quality that made Ramirez famous. The guitar has a wide dynamic range. Each note is very intense, with the overtones tightly packed into a solid and well-defined fundamental. This creates an almost cathedral-like echo effect of sound radiating from the body, giving the instrument an enormous presence - both behind the instrument from the playing position and in the distance from the listener's perspective.
The condition of this Jose Ramirez is excellent for the age of the guitar - it has very few traces of use.
An excellent example of a fine Ramirez for a collector or concert guitarist. It is perfectly set up and comes with the original case.
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