ON SALE.... FROM FRANCE, CAFÉ
AMÉRICAIN DEVAN ESTUDIO (STUDENT) GYPSY JAZZ
GUITAR
Welcome to the Classicguitar-Workshop in beautiful Arizona. Thank you for
taking time to look at this excellent handcrafted Estudio Gypsy Jazz guitar
from the workshop of Café Américain.
ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME, we have two left of the original 2015 Devan student to intermediate level Gypsy Jazz guitar. A shorter scale length instrument that is an excellent instrument to learn to play Gypsy Jazz and Swing.
The Devan model is
a short scale (650mm) Bouche Ovale (oval-mouth) guitar for the player that
wants a Django/Gypsy Jazz style guitar that is a lot of fun yet easy to play.
The neck is a little wider than our 670mm models with a very low action which makes this guitar very,
very easy to play.
About Gypsy Jazz music, it evolved in Europe in the 1930s when French Django
Reinhardt, playing a Maccaferri/Selmer guitar in smoke-filled Paris clubs,
combined a Gypsy playing style with the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Duke
Ellington to produce a wonderful and inventive new form of music, Gypsy Jazz;
also known in France as Jazz Manouche.
Today, the same Jazz Manouche is played worldwide, the tradition lives, and is
continued by guitarists everywhere. And this easy to play guitar is made to get
you started with this very enjoyable style.
About Café Américain, it is a small traditional workshop/company that produces
a few hundred guitars a year, these guitars are beautiful, well made, and sound
excellent.
Now about the guitar… the beautiful 2015 Devan model is our original easy-to-handle 650mm short scale guitar that measures 40mm across the lower bout.
It has a Bouche Ovale 21 fret fretboard, its design taken from the first French
Maccaferri-Selmer guitar.
It has an easy action, driving sound, with the cutting tone you would expect from a Gypsy
Jazz guitar. It is exceptional for the new or intermediate player who wants to
play Swing or Jazz Manouche.
The soundboard is high-grade solid European Spruce, and the back and sides are
Rosewood (this is a true Indian Rosewood for the ‘correct sound,’ not the
imitation Asian Rosewood of other guitar makers.) This guitar is made from the correct woods to
give the true sound of French Maccaferri-Selmer Gypsy Jazz guitars.
Drive this guitar and with these woods you
will get a great cutting sound or pull back and it will respond with a mellow
tone.
The fret-board, floating mustache-bridge, and fret-head are made of
Rosewood. It has a leather-padded brass tail-piece and is strung with
D'Addario Gypsy-Jazz strings. Plus with the guitar I will include Gypsy Jazz
music, both in TAB and standard notation.
And now a little about myself, I spend summers in France and each
spring I attend the Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany, (Europe’s largest music
trade-show,) to meet guitar makers and see their instruments. Then, I am
fortunate enough to travel Europe going to music festivals and guitar workshops
looking for guitars.
A few details:-
· 2015 year Devan Model
· Solid European Spruce top
· True Indian Rosewood back and sides
· Rosewood fretboard, fret-head, and bridge.
· 21-frets
· 650mm scale length
· 40cm width across the lower bout
· Floating Mustache bridge
· Bouche Ovale 'oval-mouth' soundhole
· Horizontal Cut-a-way
· Nut width 46 mm
· Truss rod
· Fast, fast, easy to play neck with a very low action
Normal retail price for
this excellent guitar is $995.00, however we now have it on sale for a limited time at $392.00. A great price for a workshop built Gypsy Jazz guitar.
From France, a Café Américain Devan model for the musician who is looking for
an authentic Gypsy Jazz Estudio guitar, built in the tradition of Maccaferri
and Selmer.
The guitar is new and any marks you see in the photos are light reflections.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask, I have had a lifetime with
guitars and will happily chat about them. Or of you wish to know more
about Gypsy Jazz or how to set up your guitar, email me.
Shipping takes approximately 4/5 days, your guitar will be
well packed, and shipped insured with a tracking number.
Overseas shipping is from the US, the cost to Canada is $65, to Australia is $105, and to the UK and most
of the EU is $95; all include insurance of
course. Import duties or taxes, if any, are the responsibility of the
buyer.
For shipping costs to other countries please email me.
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My Best Wishes for Your Guitar Playing