Where is the Selmer 503?

wim

On Sunday I went to cite de la musique to see Django's selmer, but it was not there. Instead in the place where it usually lives, was the busato of Brassens. Kind of annoying because I made the trip up that way solely to see the guitar. I asked the attendants, who could only speak french, if they knew where it was gone and he made a joke that it was poubelle (rubbish) guitar and they threw it out, but then I think he went on to explain it was at some other django exhibition and would return to the permanent collection after. My french is not very good so I might misunderstand something, I couldn't tell where it was and I wasn't aware of any Django exhibition at the moment that might be important enough to get the selmer 503! If it's true, I would be interested to hear about that and what else might be there.

So, does anyone know where the 503 is now?

PapsPier

Yo,
it seems that there was an exhibition in Lyon (France) until end of July. This exhibition was an adaptation of the one presented in Cite de la musique previously.
May be this can be an explanation ?

klaatu

Wim, I hope you toured the rest of the museum while you were there. I,too, made the "pilgrimage" to see #503 while in Paris in 2011 and was blown away by the incredible instrument collection and the great videos describing the music and instruments of each era represented. The museum is highly recommended to anyone visiting Paris, 503 or no 503.

Mitch

It also happened to me the first time, and we are not alone!
That's part of the Django quest

Certainly disappointing but I'm shure you'll get a second chance Wim and as Klaatu said, the museum's collection is really worthy.
I don't remember everything but you can see Warlop/Grappelli's violin, Brassens' guitar, Chopin's piano, some Stradivarius, an octobass (the megalodon of all string bass ), harpsichords, flutes, guitars, pianos...

Just in case you didn't that Wim... it may be interesting for you

wim

Hmm, I post a reply here before but it disappeared?!

Yes it's an excellent museum, but I have been there before for many hours in 2009 and saw almost everything, the place hasn't added much since then This time I just went for 503 ... I'm back in Paris now so I wonder if she has returned??

Yes I know well Ivan's video ... this guitar porno .. at my last birthday party we had it projecting on the wall of the pub , on a loop all night

Scoredog

wow, just wow!

pickitjohn

Any Help ?

Django's Selmer 503 above

I watched the Selmer Video Thanks for the link

I was just wandering what is with the nut on Django's Guitar, I've never seen what seems to be a metal nut instead of bone before. :?:



Anyone shed some light on the nut material? :?:

Here is a picture of Selmer 862 headstock below.

Sure looks different to me :roll:

pick on

pickitjohn

wim

It's not metal. It's just aged and dirty

p.s. I went to the museum again yesterday - and the 503 is STILL not there! WTF? :evil:

noodlenot

bugger... i also went to the museum a couple of years ago and the 503 wasn´t there... maybe it´s a tradition of the museum?

anyway, i felt compensated by the rest of the collection - including classical guitars by Torres, Bouchet and Friederich. But i guess if you go there a 2nd time and miss it again it can get up your head...

tomcunn

i was there in september and the staff did not know where it was; "out for repairs" one said, and when i asked what repairs he said he was just guessing.
a mystery