Paris Swing Co. guitars

bungalowbill

Anyone know about these? Chinese made of course... design by an ex Gibson guy...Greg Rich.

djohn

All I know is what I see here:

http://www.themusiclink.net/A_Link_To_T ... 004.0.html

This is the company that makes (or at least distributes) Johnson guitars. I have a bit of experience with their resophonic instruments which are inexpensive but of wildly varying quality. There are some suggestions that qualityhas gotten better in the past 6 months or so.

John

Josh Hegg

There is this link too:

http://www.parisswing.com/

really not any good info....

drolling

First Saga (Gitane), then Aria (tho' I haven't seen any of these in north america yet) and now Paris Swing? If they are, indeed, anything like the Johnsons, I would not chance buying one on-line. I did play one brass bodied style'O' that was every bit as good as my old National, whereas the other dozen or so that I tried were complete garbage.

I'm eerily reminded of the resonator craze that swept thru' the guitar world a few years back. I eventually lost track of the number of brands that were popping up everywhere. Now the local shops only stock Fenders with their hideous 'F' shaped f holes, or Deans with their even more hideous headstocks. If this happens with selmacs, I shudder to think what will be left when the market saturates.

Mac Hack

It looks like Cafedjango plans on selling these too.

http://www.cafedjango.com/gear_misc/gui ... _swing.htm

RICK-D15

:P

Josh Hegg

I wonder if that bear is a Favino.... :?

Mac Hack

TedGottsegen wrote:

...and what special occasion is complete without the "I LUV Gypsy Jazz" Teddy Bear?!

http://www.cafedjango.com/gear_misc/specials.htm :roll: :roll: you can't get much lamer.

Well, don't shoot the messenger! I first heard about both the Paris Swing Company and CafeDjango by visiting the Djangofest San Francisco home page. http://www.djangofest.com/sf/home.htm

Personally, I'm holding out for the "Got Gypsy Jazz?" thong. (Place irreverently smirking emoticon here.)

Barengero

TedGottsegen wrote:

I wonder if Bernhard at Hot Club News is getting compensated for every American company under the sun using his graphic?

Hi Ted,
I asked Bernhard Gierstl about this. The Cartoon wasn´t made by him. The face of Django was once painted by Charles Delaunay. Later Alain Antonietto added the upper part of the body and the guitar.

Best,
Barengero