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• spatzo Virtuoso

  July 2011 Posts: 771

  Hi Teddy! have you changed your email address?
  
  The man on the photo could also be the famous "Ballon" the mandolin player of Toulon that was also an hair-dresser and dancer, friend of Django in Toulon and of painter Pianfetti (that was also the owner of a bar in Toulon where Django used toplay).
  
  It could be the same man playing mandolin on the video with Django and Joseph in Toulon (1931) for the Inauguration of a monument
  
  Best
• François RAVEZ FranceProdigy

  October 2012 Posts: 294

  Dear all,
  
  It seems that this exhibition is going to be displayed again and this time in the suburbs near Paris :
  
  «Emile Savitry, un photographe de Montparnasse» will be displayed at "la Maison de la Photographie Robert-Doisneau" de Gentilly (94) from 25 october 2012 to 27 januar 2013.
  
  Best
  
  François RAVEZ
• Lango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator

  October 2012 Posts: 1,887

  
  
  ... and how delightful to see that Django's banjo was the longer-necked "plectrum" banjo, the kind I play...
  
  ...though I'm fairly sure Django used GGBE 'guitar' tuning instead of standard plectrum CGBD 'banjo' tuning.

  Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
  
  Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
  
  Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."