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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 a different 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 it arrives in the mail (I bought a copy off of Ebay), and when I have time. 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
I don't think there's any doubt that guitar is the one you have. I've done plenty of guitar identification research, cross-checking, etc., and this one's a no-brainer.
Hi Marc, the bit you've quoted is not from the Just Jazz Guitar magazine, but from another French interview with Simon Lustigman.
The English interview in Just Jazz Guitar has more details about the exchange and about the guitar itself too.
One note: both interviews do not state verbatim that 560 ever was Django's guitar. It does state, however, that it was given to Simon by Naguine, Django's wife as repayment of an outstanding debt of their son Lousson.
According to the writer the evidence to be circumstantially strong, but not conclusive.