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I’m surprised to see a Mazaud guitar for sale on Djangobooks for so long. It’s top-notch, even if the sound is somewhat suggestive. I’m wondering why people don’t rush to buy it like when a Holo drops, at twice the price!

It has a piezo transducer pickup installed inside with the 1/4 jack endpin.

Location: NYC

Asking: $3500 + Shipping

I'll take some video and send samples upon request.

I've gotten myself started on a Saga Gitane DG-255 and like it a lot. Turns out I’m heading to Paris next month and want to take advantage of the pilgrimage!

I understand Guitare Village is the biggest guitar shop in the vicinity, but it’s pretty far outside the city. Within Paris, it seems Castelluccia and Casanova are worth visiting. Anything else? It would be great to try out a range of Duponts - where does one go?

Here in the U.S. - is the best way to educate myself about different builders to attend Django festivals? I’m in California — is DjangoFest Northwest the best on the West Coast?

I have a repair question and I would appreciate getting anyone's wisdom before I hand my guitar over to a luthier. 

My Stringphonic Advanced model suffered a fall and now the seam between the headstock and neck has cracked/opened—though it snaps back into place. 

What’s the best route for repair with breaks like this?

The walls are 1" thick and the top and back are .5" thick. Just wanted to let you know in case you need help considering a gig bag with considerable padding.

Give me a yell if you're passing that way.

Two Selmer style D-hole guitars made from solid walnut back and sides, spruce top, typical body dimensions, but one made at a medium 660mm and another long 670mm scale length.

Ergonomics aside, what are some pros and cons of each guitar?

Shipping would be to Brisbane, Australia

A 1967 Gibson ES-330. This is like a 335 except it's fully hollow (no wooden block running inside it to help with feedback), the pickups are different and the neck joins the body at the 17th fret, not the 19th. It was red (similar to the 335 Alvin Lee from Ten Years After played at Woodstock). Technically I didn't own it, but the soundman in the jam band I was in at the time did & he never played it. When I expressed interest in it, he said "as long as you're playing it, consider it yours". I played the bejesus out of it for 7 years. When I finally got tired of fighting the feedback, I switched to Strats & gave it back to him. I often find myself missing it & wondering where it is.

not mounted just floating abound in there

I’d like to find out to place it in the guitar properly.

thanks

My Geronimo Matteo built 2004 Gallato guitar is in need of new frets. I recently moved to the east coast (Maryland) and I'm trying to find someone skilled I can trust to do the job. Can anyone recommend someone in this part of the country? Maybe around Manhattan or Washington, D.C.?

Thanks,

Luke

I came very close to not getting things set up but realized I had a bum patch cable.  

It sounds fine here but the phone doesn't catch it...the amplified sound was perfect.  

Sam is playing through the NVtone and the internal piezo with IR. Either one sounds pretty good on their own but mixed together they are really amazing. The mic is a little bright by itself, the piezo a little dark after the IR. 

Both are run into a little mixing board. I would have definitely benefited by having more eq, parametric would have been the best. I only had a high and low control. 

Fapy is playing only through the humbucker, which is a Stewmac basic humbucker, I have had really good results with these.  

NVtone has these new felt dampers for the tips of the microphones and I'm hoping they might make the mic more useable on its own.  

Anyway, it was cool af. I was psyched, someone came up to me the next day and didn't realize Sam was amplified.

I have been using the Tanglewood T6 amp my entire life for gigs, but recently it's been getting quieter and hasn't had the punch that I've needed for bar gigs and medium sized venues. I wanted to get a henricksen Bud, but they have gotten really expensive. I love that the Bud is 2 channels and can connect to bluetooth. Are there any good, cheap alternatives? I use a peche, and want to get a cs sensor for context on my pickup situation.

Thanks,

Josiah

I hoping this would be a good resource for those of us who always wonder which pick their favorite guitarist uses.

I know that all these folks can probably play with and sound like themselves with any kind of pick and that pick preference can change often, but it would still be a nice reference to have.

Here's what I have so far. I based these on watching videos or what they have said during interviews. I know some of you will point out all the errors I have made ?

Feel free to add to the list! I am curious to know what some other players use like Tchavolo Schmitt, Dorado Schmitt, and Mozes Rosenberg.

Dunlop Delrin 500 1.5MM

Bireli Lagrene

Adrien Moignard

Sebastien Giniaux

Benji Winterstein

Samson Schmitt

Robin Nolan

Yorgui Loeffler

Andres Oberg

Dunlop Delrin 500 2.0MM

Hono Winterstein

Dunlop Gator Grip 2.0MM

Amati Schmitt

Antoine Boyer

Denis Chang

Dunlop Gator Grip 1.5MM

Rocky Gresset

Dunlop Big Stubby 3.0MM

Jimmy Rosenberg

Wegen Big City 1.8MM

Stochelo Rosenberg

Christiaan Van Hemert

Joscho Stephan

Wegen GP350

Angelo Debarre

Tortoise Shell Pick

Rino van Hooijdonk

I'm mostly a gypsy jazz player but after a cheap electric to achieve two things:

1. A quiet practice instrument (for playing manouche style but late at night etc)
2. An electric I can take along to a blues or straight-ahead jam if the mood takes me

Key thing is in both scenarios I want to keep my technique as consistent as possible with how I play on a selmac (broken wrist, rest stoke etc). My budget would be around $600 but curious if this might be an interesting broader discussion as I imagine others might be after the same thing at different price points - found past posts on quiet practice guitars (eg yamaha silent) but of course that doesn't double well as your only electric..

I've thought of picking up one of the Ibanez hollowbodies - they're nice guitars for the money and have closer to correct dimensions for the technique than a solid/semi-hollow, but stock they're quite bloomy and have a bit of a 'delicate' feel to them that doesn't encourage digging in. Not sure if putting a set of thick rounds on one/pumping up the action/lowering the pickups might achieve something with a bit more bark/snap & that you can hit a bit harder, but worried it might still turn out a bit too loud acoustically for late-night apartment playing. Anyone found a good solution?

Cheers!

For my GJ guitars--Argie 1510 MF's (loop end), bought in bulk from Michael here.

For my archtop--Thomastik-Infeld BeBop 13's (round wound).

I went 2 years ago, it was pretty fun. There's a really great variety of luthiers there. I thought I'd heard Jason say that Antoine B was going to be there but maybe I hallucinated it.

Anybody tried Gypsy Guitar strings on a classical guitar? Results?

This is Michel Wegen from the Netherlands. It has been quite while since I was on a forum, and I'm trying to learn how to use this.

Anyway, I have been very busy in the past couple of months, and I think I may have developed new guitar picks.

I have made a start with some of the grooved teardrop models.

The models are the same (I hope), but the material is different, and so is the way I can produce these picks.

The available models are the Gypsyjazzpick, the GP250, Twins 2.5mm and the Twins 3.5mm. All these picks come in grey.

Since I don't play any musical instruments myself, I'm looking for testing players. I'll supply free picks, in exchange for honest, good and bad, feedback on this Djangobooks forum.

I was thinking about five serious testing players for each model.

So, when you are interested, please drop me a line.