1942 Julian Gomez Ramirez (1879-1943) Signed - French Polish

650 mm Scale 51 mm Nut. Medium grain Spruce Soundboard and Brazilian Rosewood back and sides. French Polish, New Fingerboard. 9 Fan Braces aimed at the 14th fret. Separate pieces attaching the top to the sides and a cut kerfing liner attaching the back to the sides.

From the Ricardo Muñoz archive there is a April 19, 1948 letter from Andre Verdier written on the back side of a concert program for a Ida Presti concert April 6 1948 with titles included where she uses a Julian Gomez Ramirez Guitar, with Augustine Strings. This was held in Béziers, France.

This weighs 1,397. 7 grams = 48.7003 ozs. =3 lbs. 1 ozs.

Handwritten at the top of the label is Buena Epoca = Good Epoch.

One crack next to the treble side of the fingerboard. 2 long cracks on the back, 3 short cracks, all have been cleated.

According to José Romanillos as well as Francoise and Daniel Sinier de Ridder: Julian Gomez Ramirez was born in 1879, in Madrid, he was listed in directories in 1892 as a guitar maker in Madrid, he was working with Agustin Andrés in 1905 (by 1909 he was signing the labels of this workshop, where he was employed) , he was a journeyman in the Manuel Ramirez shop, working with Enrique Garcia, Antonio Viudes and Rafael Casana. But, by 1908 he was working in Paris, as labels show.

In 1936 Robert Bouchet met Julian and 2 years later purchased a guitar from his shop.

According to René Vannes "Dictionnaire Universel des Luthiers" Julian's nickname was 'The Stradivarius of the Guitar', he passed away in November of 1943.

Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya played Julian's guitars.

Frederic Zigante plays one today.

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