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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 23 Mar 2011 7:30 am    
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSo66p7G_8&feature=player_embedded#at=111

I love vintage guitars as much as anyone but somehow this particular guitar, without Django playing it, seems like just an old, dead thing.
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CrowBear Schmitt


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Post  Posted 23 Mar 2011 9:54 am    
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Looks like she's still in France
do i see a metal nut ? ( i think so )
quite a model indeed Very Happy
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 23 Mar 2011 11:32 am    
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That's just it--the gear is nothing without the player. Django turned that guitar into the Holy Grail of guitars with the way he played it. It is priceless and worthless at the same time (not literally, but you get my drift, I hope).
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Roger Miller


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Post  Posted 23 Mar 2011 6:12 pm    
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I remember in a interview with Les Paul, that in his collection was a original Selmer owned by Django.
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Mark van Allen


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Post  Posted 24 Mar 2011 10:34 am    
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I just wish I could have seen Django playing it in person. But then I'd be even older than I am.
I bet he'd think it was really funny that it's being shown such reverence!
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 24 Mar 2011 10:59 am    
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When Django came to America, he left his selmer home and picked out a guitar from the Epiphone factory. He disliked the American-made guitars and lamented that he missed his Selmer.
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Alvin Blaine


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Post  Posted 24 Mar 2011 12:06 pm    
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CrowBear Schmitt wrote:
Looks like she's still in France
do i see a metal nut ? ( i think so )
quite a model indeed Very Happy


Ebony nut with a zero fret.
I have two copies of this guitar, even the cheap Asian import version has a massive amount of volume. I attribute that to the design of 503.
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