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Provenance of Selmer #560
marcelodamon
Asheville, NC✭✭✭ Selmers #560, #561, & #701/Dell Arte Blues Clair/Dell Arte Macias/Philippe Cattiaux Chorus/AJL Gypsy Fire/AJL Model 503/ Manuel May Custom
My friend came across this edition of Just Jazz Guitar magazine from August of 2000, and much to my surprise, there is a possibility that Selmer #560 (that I now own) used to belong to Django himself. He probably lost it in a game of billiards!
What an incredible surprise, to say the least.
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You just got yourself a nice retirement fund, as long as the story can hold water.
Brilliant!!!!
Awesome.
Fancy a game of billiards?😉
From the magazine article:
From the interview with Simon Lustigman:
I never knew Django; I was at Télé Luxembourg. I knew his children. I knew Babik when he was nine years old. I was very close to Lousson, his eldest son, whom he didn't acknowledge, whose name was Baumgartner. I have a Selmer; Django's wife gave it to me because Lousson owed me money. He couldn't pay me back. She said, "Here, then: take the guitar."
So it seems, Django brought the guitar home to his sons, and it was in the house for a time. I wonder how often and how much he played it.
I was going to ask, could you scan the whole article? Probably a clear photo would do the job.
I will, when I get a chance. I am currently working a long string of shifts this month, in anticipation of my vacation to Brazil (my wife is from there and we visit every May).
Superbes