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New photos of Django Reinhardt discovered

AndyWAndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.
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English text lower in article. Photos found in archives not seen for 77 years!

jonpowlPhilbillyshakesWillieJangle_JamieBillDaCostaWilliamsDoubleWhiskyMichaelHorowitzBuco
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    Whoa! With the mystery guitar nonetheles.

    AndyWDoubleWhisky
    Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
  • billyshakesbillyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E
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    Maybe this is the guitar that George Benson was playing! 😂

    AndyWvoutoreenieflacoBucoDoubleWhiskyBillDaCostaWilliams
  • PJDPJD New
    edited October 22 Posts: 54

    Thanks for sharing! The guitar looks like a (Barthelemy) Hermitte, he was a luthier in Cannes.

    http://luthiervents.blogspot.com/2011/01/


    BillDaCostaWilliamsDoubleWhisky
  • PJDPJD New
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  • wimwim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica
    edited October 22 Posts: 1,501


    It was for 850 € on leboncoin

    Buco
  • billyshakesbillyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E
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    If I follow the link that @wim sent, is that a long crack along the length of the back of the neck up through part of the heel? Also wonder if those rubbed areas on the top near lower bouts (top & bottom) are cracks that have been repaired? But just given the age of the guitar, the shape of the headstock, the style of the fret inlays, and even the rosette design, the guitars would seem to be identical. The one Django is playing appears to have a pickguard perhaps screwed on and also a pickup.

    How about Joseph's guitar? Looks like it might be curly or quilted maple with perhaps a little bean hole or smaller D-hole partly covered by the pickguard?. Three piece neck. Article suggests Di Mauro.

  • PJDPJD New
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    @wim haha yes it was still for sale when I posted the mystery guitar probably is a Hermitte.

  • PJDPJD New
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    @billyshakes it looks more like the high E string and its shadow that is broken, not a crack, but not 100% sure.

  • wimwim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica
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    photo same day maybe

    BillDaCostaWilliamsBuco
  • JojoJojo London UK
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    To me, it looks like someone has overpainted the body with ordinary household emulsion probably in the 60s. That marking on the body near the neck in the Django photo is like a chip of paint has come off

    but the overpainting couldn’t cover it up properly

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