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Question:
I'm an amateur classical guitar player who's just acquired a 1964 Jose Ramirez. It's beautifully made and has a fabulous tone plus all the right attributes like the ramirez headstock, the beautiful woods used by the luthier and the Madrid label. If I'm honest, the quality is far beyond my level of playing and I think I ought probably dispose of it and use some of the money to get an instrument more in line with my humble level of playing. So the question is this, how ought I set about getting the best price for the Ramirez? Should I be thinking of auctioning it, selling it privately or what?
Answer:
You can read about the Hauser guitars from R.E.Brune's articles in Vintage Guitar magazine. There are about 20+ articles titled Guitars with Guts. Go to http://www.rebrune.com click on museum then click on bibliography. There will be a list of his articles. It is not up to date. There are many more then what is listed. You can contact Vintage guitar magazine and request copies of all of his articles. They hate doing it so you may or may not be able to get copies. I do not recall how much they charge for the article reprints. I am introducing a new model for 2003 that is a very close copy of Segovia's 1937 Hauser. It is not just a Hauser style guitar. Some folks call anything a Hauser style if you slap 7 fans on the soundboard. One feature is the Hauser V head joint and not the Romanillos style V See http://schrammguitars.com/vhead.html This new model will have all the special, and mostly unnoticed or unknown, features of an original Hauser. I've been traveling all over California to various dealers, salons, and collectors studying the Hauser guitars. I've also been in touch with many world renown scholars and restorers. The prototype is almost finished and is very close to an original in every detail. The only way I could duplicate it 100% is if I had one in my shop as a model. I also purchased some original Lansdorfer tuners that are brand new, still in the bag, from the 1960's! I will use these by request only and they will not be cheap. If anyone here lives in California and owns a Hauser please email me. I'd love to come visit you and your Hauser . Photos of the prototype will be up in about a month.
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Comment #1 (Posted by SHELDON GOODMAN
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Don't underrate yourself. Classical guitar is a very hard instrument. I've had many years of lessons and even more years of playing. Unfortunately, the prettier sounding the music, the more difficult the music. I haven't played much lately, but most of what I know, I haven't mastered...probaly never will. I play a Japanese guitar, a Tatsuo Tanaka. It's 40 years old and is a fine instrument. But I will never forget my teacher's Ramirez. He was a Mexican American...boy did he make that instrument sing!!! Consider keeping the instrument. I imagine that you can't replace it, if you ever have a change of heart... VTY, A music lover