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• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  October 2022 Posts: 6,180

  This one just give me chills!
• wim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica

  October 2022 Posts: 1,501

  How many of these were built?
• pdg ✭✭

  October 2022 Posts: 487

  I wonder how it sounded brand new (and how much it weighed then).
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  October 2022 Posts: 6,180

  https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/112614#Comment_112614

  i don’t think anyone really knows…this is the only one that anyone has seen in decades. Of course, there's the one Django used in the J'Attendrei video (who knows what became of that one) and the Francois Charles book has a few photos of others. They're all in the serial # range from 340-500, with a few going up to around 550. But prewar Selmers of any kind are exceedingly rare, so they're probably are only a few surviving examples of these transitional models.
• wim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica

  October 2022 Posts: 1,501

  Do you think the fingerboard is original? I guess the J'attendrai video guitar was built around a similar time, but it had a different fingerboard with weird extension thing.
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  October 2022 Posts: 6,180

  The one in the J'Attendrei video was a 14 fretter, so a bit different than this one. There are all sorts of variations from this period as they were experimenting and/or using up old parts. There's no sign this one ever had a fingerboard extension.
• scot Virtuoso

  October 2022 Posts: 670

  I played a guitar like this (12 fret oval) in Knoxville Tn about 20 years ago. The guitar had an interesting history, was light as a feather and sounded amazing. I wonder if this is the same one?
• pdg ✭✭

  October 2022 Posts: 487

  What makes the guitar in the J'Attendrai video a "transitional" guitar, if it's a 14-fret guitar? The scale length?
• wim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica

  October 2022 Posts: 1,501

  Yeah it's a 640 scale iirc