Gipsy Guitar buy

Glauco · January 2007

I want to buy a gypsy guitar to put together to mine ( a Jerezian Flamenco and a Ovation Legend) but here in Bologna i can find only commercial low quality guitar.
Does anyone know a luthier or other source for try these guitar here in It?

Thanks
Glauco

emicad · February 2007

Hi man,
I play an Hodson guitar, model 503SR. It's a copy of the original Selmer 503 owned by Django and it's great, the sound is loud and deep and I really love it. Here the David's website, take a look: http://www.hodsonjazzguitars.com/

You can also speak with Gerrit, a friend of mine and a great luthier:
http://www.gitaarbouw.nl/

Another way is to take a trip in Paris and look around, try some instruments and find your favourite.

Anyway, if you take a look at Michael site or around the web, you'll find a lot of good luthiers.

Cheers.

Bones · March 2007

Try a Gitan. They are cheap and pretty good.

Look on Djangobooks.com

I like the DG-320.

pippo · May 2007

hi.
John David Hodson passed away on 14 february 2007, following a very short illness. R.I.P.
Pippo

emicad · May 2007

Yeah, it was a big loss.

hempbump · June 2007

take a flight to granada and visit his atelier.

www.oliviermarin.com

he builds the best guitars at the moment in my opinion.

simplygoodmusic · April 2008

If you are still looking... take a look. Its located in Bologna as well, and boonstras are apparantly great.

http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/ann/an ... selmer.htm

I really wanna give it a shot, and see if its worth buying, but I won't be able to go to bolognia until after june 6th... a long way away, and I fear it might be taken by then. Wish I could get it, but I thought, seeing as you are around there, you might wanna try and grab it.

Price isn't fantastic, though the pickup makes it slightly better. But I guess this is as good as it gets in Italy.

frater · April 2008

Tolga is endorsing Boonstra guitars now (in fact he's also selling his old Scharpach). Probably Boonstra is building a new one for him...

Boonstra guitars sound great, but I really can't force myself to like their shape... same thing with the Marin.

simplygoodmusic · April 2008

frater wrote:

Tolga is endorsing Boonstra guitars now (in fact he's also selling his old Scharpach). Probably Boonstra is building a new one for him...

Boonstra guitars sound great, but I really can't force myself to like their shape... same thing with the Marin.

I admit, I have never played one, but every time I hear one I am amazed. They have a certain edge over most other guitars I've heard... a little less bright and a little more punchy. Could be completly wrong... I am gonna wait until I play one.

How I hope it doesn't get sold in the upcoming month and a half.

frater · April 2008

Not sure, but this should be exactly the guitar in the ad. Not even sure it's the same guitar in both clips, actually! (but I guess so)

Unfortunately no way to hear the plain acoustic sound here... as for the piezo ... well, it is really piezo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TLmUqZAt4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OREXYSCM ... re=related

You can hear a plain record of a Boonstra here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidVg5qOMno

But my all time favourite rendition of "Exactly like you" remains this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PcPsvfl ... re=related

No kidding!