Django's Selmer

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 23 Mar 2011 7:30 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSo66p7 ... ded#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.

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 23 Mar 2011 9:54 am

Looks like she's still in France
do i see a metal nut ? ( i think so )
quite a model indeed

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 23 Mar 2011 11:32 am

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).

Roger Miller · Post by **Roger Miller** » 23 Mar 2011 6:12 pm

I remember in a interview with Les Paul, that in his collection was a original Selmer owned by Django.

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 24 Mar 2011 10:34 am

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!

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 24 Mar 2011 10:59 am

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.

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 24 Mar 2011 12:06 pm

CrowBear Schmitt wrote:Looks like she's still in France
do i see a metal nut ? ( i think so )
quite a model indeed

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.