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lasting enmity between the brothers and they never spoke again. Ramírez opened his workshop at Cava Baja nº 24, before relocating to Plaza de Santa Ana nº 5, and in 1897 to Calle Arlabán nº 10 where he remained until 1912, before moving next door to nº 11. Enrique Garcia (1868-1922) who began an apprenticeship with José Ramírez in 1883 joined Manuel Ramírez. The workshop took some time to attract customers which lead Ramírez to bring in income by working for a period as an electrician for the Madrid
Electric Company, leaving the workshop in the hands of Garcia. The business also made violins as well. In 1893 Manuel won a medal at that year's Chicago Fair.
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Manuel Ramírez was also regarded as an excellent maker of violins. In 1895 Enrique Garcia left his position as Ramírez 's foreman to move to
Barcelona to establish his own workshop. Ramirez subsequently hired Santos Hernandez (1873 - 1943) in about 1905 as foreman. By 1912 Manuel Ramírez had been
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Manuel Ramírez's style of guitar followed the ideas of
Antonio Torres and came to be regarded as his successor, yet at the same time he inquisitively experimented and further developed Torres's ideas. As a result he began producing guitars that had a lighter delicate sound, that became popular
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