Django was a Gypsy, born Jean Reinhardt in Belgium in 1910 and ... reading about Django’s technique and his famous Selmer Maccaferri guitar. Although Django will always be a larger-than-life ...

Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known ... Also, Reinhardt had given up his acoustic Selmer for the electric guitar, which may sound a bit jarring to those used to his famous ...

French Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt spent most of his ... alongside an exhibit devoted to guitars, Django’s well-worn Selmer. Django’s Selmer at first had gut strings, but they ...

Django Reinhardt inspired Willie Nelson in more ... fell in love with the plucky sound of Reinhardt’s signature Selmer acoustic guitar. He had found a decent comparison in his first guitar ...

But it wasn't only Reinhardt's technique that made him Django; it was also the guitar itself. Reinhardt favored the Selmer guitar, which features a large, D-shaped sound hole that amplifies an ...

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G ypsy jazz guitar extraordinaire Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) was the star of the remarkable Quintet of the Hot Club of France (1934-39), the most original European contribution in the history of ...