This is a test of Pepe Romeros Manuel Ramirez 1912 Classical guitar. I'm playing in the Romeros house ( always a bit scary) and had just loaded in and out of the Truck 2000 dvds so my hands are very tight but WHAT A GUITAR!!! Talk bout a shock, WHERE DO YOU GO to PLAY a GUITAR LIKE THIS? MANUEL RAMIREZ 1912, THE GUITAR from and the year of SEGOVIAS FAMED GUITAR And its rocking LOUD!!!. I know the MET MUSEUM won't let you play his, but it never hurts to ask. ITS FOR SALE AND WOULD BE AN AMAZING INVESTMENT,$45,000 Manuel Ramírez was one of the most important makers of the Madrid school at the turn of the 20th century. His well-organized shop was staffed by talented makers such as Santos Hernandez, Domingo Esteso, Antonio Emilio Pascual Viudes, and Modesto Borreguero (Enrique Garcia having previously left for Barcelona, and Julian Gómez Ramírez having left for Paris). Many collectors are familiar with his most famous instrument, the wonderful example from 1912 played for so many years by Andrés Segovia, and now residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This instrument was actually built by Santos Hernandez, who later restored the instrument in 1922, inserting his own restoration label below the Ramirez label. This instrument, which was originally made as an 11-string guitar for Antonio Gimenez Manjon, was one of Manuel's finest models, the kind of ne plus ultra guitar most collectors today tend to favor, often to the detriment of the more common examples. However, these expensive deluxe models were hardly the bread and butter guitars of the Ramírez shop, as customers who could afford the expensive models were few and far between. In fact, according to a Manuel Ramírez catalog issued circa 1912, he offered no less than 48 models ranging in price from 10 to 1,000 Pesetas. By contrast, the violins Manuel made personally ranged in price from 200 to 1,000 Pesetas for the finest violin cello. To put those prices in perspective, 1,000 Pesetas represented the average annual salary of a skilled tradesman. So it shouldn't surprise us that most of the instruments he sold were modestly priced examples.