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Submitted by: Gabriel Godoi

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hi... I just wonder why people say that ignacio rozas just made one number 2 guitar with his signature. I´ve been with ignacio a few times in early 90's and I have a number 2 guitar with his signature made in 1991. I´m a brazilian guitar player living in Portugal, and bought this guitar from Ignacio after trying all the contreras and ramirez available in Madrid at that time. Ignacio's guitar was outstanding... He had a number 1 for 400 thousand pesetas (almost 3.000USD ina 1991) and a number 2 for 275 thousand.. They played and sound just the same, with just a few diferences in the woods and ornaments. Still plays beutifully... and its a number 2 and signed!

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I knew Igancio and his son since the 1980's...late 70's. Ignacio only signed what he crafteed 100% by himslef. If it is signed...then he crafted it. Later...he realized...that It took him app. the same amount of time...to craft a 1A as a IIA. Thus he delegated IIA's to another person...and also used less expensive woods as he had before. Thus he then ...never signed those IIa"s. THis I know because I asked him. Also he only crafted app. 5 flamenco guitars...and signed them. I know as I had bought one. Last year I saw him again...(he came to Madrid and a workshop in a garage...(large garage) that he had shared for a while after leaving his shop on Calle Major. I asked him how many Flamenco guitars he crafted. He stated app. 5. They are large like his !A classical...and soung half way between...a classical and a flamenco. Beautifully crafted. He signed them. That comes from Ignacio himself. There are very few...very few IIA's signed. I personally only know of one.... If they are signed I would question any IIA. Ignacio stated to me that...after the 80's he never made any at all...and that all the others... (IIA's) were never completely made by him. Only the one he sold to me... It has been sold to Mark Tossman near Seattle as also a damaged 1AQ. Contact him if you wnat a nice IIa or iA...that has been repaired. MarkTossman@Yhaoo.com

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The number IIA....does not sound the same as a Number IA Rozas. If they did...would Ignacio have spent the extra money for Brazillian Rosewood that was app. 60 years old...(drying time)? Both model do ... "sound" ...in the Rozas sound...but the IA is made of "expensive" Brazilian rpsewood...and German Cedar or German Spruce. The IIA was made of...........INDIAN Rosewood...and less expensive Cedars. I know...because I asked him. He is in my estimation...a person whose guitars (ClassicaliA range as some of the best in the world. The majority of his guitars ...we acquiured by people who played in orchestra...througout the world. I know this because his "partner in business" Esperanza...showed me he sales' book... She noted everyone of the sales of Ignacio's guitar made and sold. She also did the final French polish on all his guitars. She and Ignacio started the shop (on Calle Major) after leaving Contreras....who had not paid them for over six months. Ignacio for many years...made all of Contreras's guitar...the top models...that is. Ignacio also worked with Ramirez...and put a small IR initials on the Ramirez labels. This can lal be verified by Ignacio. He lives outside...Madrid...but comes in once in a while to help his fellow guitar makers in madrid at the old garage workshop. DCW

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Submitted by: Anonymous

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I apologize for all this... My number 2 was lent to a friend as I have been dedicated these last few years to a seven string brazilian made guitar... When I saw these adds I wrote in an impulse and relied on good memories of Ignacio and Esperanza, but I called my friend just to check it out and... The truth is that the guitar is NOT signed. Never ocurred to me that the guitar was NOT made entirely by Ignacio, that I visited some other times, and I always found working alone in the back of the Calle Mayor shop... at least until 2000... To be honest I feel "cheated" fiding out this way......Ignacio was always very nice and helpful, as well as Esperanza... but I'm shure they never mentioned that the guitar was not made by Ignacio.... I remember clearly comparing the two guitas and finding them both better than any other I've tried in Madrid... and, anyway, at 23 y-old, the number 2 was already a dream guitar and a financial effort... Well, it's still a nice guitar... My apologies to you all...

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Submitted by: Anonymous

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Mark Tossman has the 1A and rge @A that he is repairing. They will be offered at reasonable prices. Contact him at. MarkTossman@Yahoo.com Ignacio has a few left (one or two 1 A's) and is asking 4000 Ruros for each. DCW

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