This is a three owner guitar. It was made for Tchocolo Winterstein. When Tchocolo and Moreno were playing together in the 1980’s/1990’s it became a favorite of Moreno who used it often. When they moved on from one another Tchocolo back possession of it and used it exclusively until 2008/9 when he passed it along to Dallas Baumgartner. A NYC based collector bought it from Dallas. Tchocolo played with everyone including: Moreno, Tchan Tchou (Tchocolo was Tchan-Tchou’s favorite rhythm player), Angelo DeBarre, Romane, Patrick Saussois, Rodolphe Raffalli, Dorado, Tchavolo, Ninine, Raphael Fays, Laurent Bajata, Francis-Alfred Moerman and many others.

This guitar is the last of its kind. A Favino built for a Montmartre gypsy that was played throughout the bars, clubs and cafe’s in Paris and throughout France. It’s a testament to the gypsy life it has lived. The finish is flaking off all over the guitar. There are numerous repaired top cracks. The finish has been worn off the back of the neck in some places and the frets are deeply pitted. The buttons on the tuners have broken at various times and have unmatched replacements: three in mother-of-toiletseat pearl, one black, one silver and one gold. A photo of Moreno using the guitar in 1998 shows that the tuning buttons were all originally mother-of-toiletseat.

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An exceptionally well preserved example of Jacques Favino’s late work. The guitar was refretted by JP Favino at some point, and he did some work on the finish as well. The guitar has only a few very small cracks which are stable, and an action of about 2.75 mm, making it play very easily. It has the authentic Favino sound in spades.

This guitar was originally built for Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe in 1989. This is an all Maple JP Favino of which there aren’t many. Like some of his other guitars from this period, this has an enlarged oval hole.

This guitar is a grand bouche without the fretboard extension. As with most of JP’s guitars these days the back and sides are Brazilian Rosewood, Maple neck and Spruce top. This guitar has the MOP block fret inlays as well. It’s not actually mother-of
pearl but some sort of plastic-like material which he didn’t know the name in English.

The guitar is light but I have yet to weigh it at this time. It has a nice dry low end with nice cutting trebles that “pop” as well. Overall nicely balanced and is the ultimate “all around” jazz guitar regardless of what style you want to play that day! This thing out of the box sounds somewhat aged already. JP said the wood was old but I forgot to ask him how old more or less he was talking.

I saw Stochelo in Germany and he signed the back of the headstock.

The photos are from when the guitar was new. It’s been all over the world with me including France, Germany, China, Australia, and has quite a few war scars now but is as dazzling as ever.

This guitar is from Jean-Pierre Favinos transitional period (late 80s to mid 90s). Guitars from this era still have the body size and longer scale length of the older Jacques Favino guitars: 16 3/4″ wide, 4″ deep. 675mm scale. However, the sound is more balanced and less “honky” then the old Favinos. This guitar has a lot of “middle” frequencies, which older Favinos dont have. It gives the guitar a very even, and more modern sound. If played lightly, it can sound a bit like an archtop, but if played hard, especially close to the bridge, it will “bark” like the Gypsy guitars of yore.

Robin Nolan plays the oval hole version of this guitar which sounds almost exactly the same. His was built only a year earlier (Favino #1001). He gets a fantastic modern Gypsy tone out of it.

The back and sides are Indian Rosewood, the top is Spruce, and it has a Mahogany neck. The fingerboard extension goes all the way to up the 25th fret. There is a strap pin mounted on the heel. It has very nice DR tuners and an original Billardi tailpiece. These tailpieces are very hard to find and are now very collectible.

This was my personal guitar for the last three years. I played it on hundreds of gigs including DjangoFest NW, Django in June, and Djangofest Sante Fe. It was also used to record the CDs for the Gypsy Rhythm and Unaccompanied Django books.

This guitar was also owned by the accomplished rhythm player Ted Gottsegen.

The guitar is in good condition. It has one crack on the top that was professionally repaired over five years ago by Jean-Pierre Favino himself. It has the sorts of dings and checking youd expect from a guitar that has been played a lot. But nothing serious.