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My Space: Manuel Ramírez’s San Salvador workshop

2026-09-25T05:57:00

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The luthier presents his El Salvador shop

I’ve been restoring instruments for the past 13 years, although I used to be a double bassist with the National Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador. While I was playing at the National Art Centre in San Salvador, I noticed that the instruments there were in a terrible condition, so much so that it was actually painful to play them…

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