My earliest influences

When I began around 1977, guitar in Quebec was living significant growth, and instrument making as well. As a student of classical guitar in Montreal my hometown, and being French native, the contact with the duo Ida Presti & Alexandre Lagoya, considered here and in those days the school of the “right”, appeared early and was very influential. Still that the Bream, Ghiglia, Mills, Segovia, Williams, Yepes and others were among of the general culture of guitarists from here, and they to some extent represented the school of the “left”. Luckily, there was no ferocious quarrels between the guitarists, and here I have in mind the famous painting representing a general fight between guitarists!
Still that many among french guitarists living here in Quebec had followed or pursued their studies in France, with Presti and Lagoya in Paris, or Ako Ito and Henri Dorigny Nice.
If my first teacher Rafik Saman was rather close to Bream and Segovia, is rather with my two teachers next: Claude Reid and Jean Vallieres that the contact with the School of Presti-Lagoya was established, the first having obtained his price Nice Ito and Dorigny, and the second at the Paris Conservatory with Lagoya.
Both played with Ramirez guitars, model 1A, cedar top and Rio rosewood, and manufactured in the great period of the sixties.
If the guitars manufactured by Bouchet strongly marked my imagination with the superb recordings of the duo-Lagoya Presti, Ramirez was widely used here, and probably the dream of a large number of guitarists. It must not forget that Andres Segovia, was the ambassador par excellence of the model 1A.
Wilhelmy 1980

René Wilhelmy -modèle Ramirez- vers 1980

The making

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