2005 D hole Patenotte

Joli Gadjo · February 2013

After much hesitation, I have decided to sell my Patenotte.
Short description:
D hole, short scale, maple back. $1,300.
The look is unconventional, but the sound has everything to compete with the best hand made guitars.
More here:
http://hcofdc.com/patenotte/

Joli Gadjo · February 2013

Fixed the link and added more detailed pictures.

Passacaglia · February 2013

Unique timing. Our Gypsy Fest last night, Alfonso Ponticelli was playing on his patenotte. Really nice.

Michael Bauer · February 2013

I had one of these and I have always regretted selling it. I bought mine when I played it up against two 1980's Favinos, and it just destroyed both of them in every way...tone, volume, and vibe. There's really nothing better sounding in the price range, and you frequently have to go quite a bit up in price to get a guitar that sounds better. Yes, the Eastern Tzigane looks are gaudy, but that's the way it comes. I just played a 100+ year-old guitar from Bulgaria this weekend, and it had a big butterfly inlaid into the top, so there is some tradition to it. Yes, I know Claude was working in France, but he was clearly going for the East-European look with the 260. I think the only thing I didn't love about this guitar was that the neck was a bit too narrow for my taste. It was deep enough, just narrower than my other guitars. Oh, yes...and the 9th fret marker, which I had moved to the 10th, and it was done so well it was impossible to see by anyone but the player. This one already has the 10th fret dot, so all the better.

There's a guy in Chicago that's wanting to get into gypsy jazz, and this is the guitar I recommended to him. I just don't think these can be beat until you get up to guitars that cost in the $4K range.

Somebody please buy this thing before I lose all resistance and piss my wife off even more...