Django Reinhardt — Rig Network
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Guitars
The definitive Django instrument — the Selmer Maccaferri's distinctive oval soundhole and ladder-braced construction produce the cutting, nasal tone that defines gypsy jazz. The guitar's small body projects powerfully without amplification in a small-ensemble jazz context. Django's example created an entire guitar-building tradition now centred in Paris.
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The later D-hole model (after Maccaferri left the Selmer company) — slightly different internal construction producing a somewhat warmer, less cutting tone than the oval soundhole version. Used through the Hot Club late period and post-war recordings.
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Django used amplified Gibson archtops during his 1946 American tour with Duke Ellington — the ES-300's full archtop amplified tone represents the only period of his career where he deviated from the Selmer acoustic approach.
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