Description

Sure to be popular with any Gypsy Jazz guitar player. The gitane DG-255 is a faithful recreation of the Selmer-style jazz guitar that replaced the original Maccaferri design of the early 1930’s. Easy recognizable in early photos of Django! With it’s longer scale length is a breeze to play and the smaller soundhole gives the guitar it’s characteristic snap, percussive and focused sound required by afficionados. There is nothing else on the market that even comes . Let Gitane Put the Gypsy in Your Soul!
FEATURES:
– Select solid spruce top with rosewood back and sides
– Body is bound in solid ebony with maple/walnut/maple purfling on top and back
– Bound Mahogany neck with a 21-fret fingerboard of genuine ebony, marked with pearl position dots
– Slotted peghead
– Genuine bone nut with traditional « zero » fret
– Dovetail neck/body joint
– Body size- 14-fret neck joint – Scale length 26 5/8 – Nut width 1 3/4 – Body length 18 1/2 – Lower bout 16 – Upper bout 11 1/4
– Horizontal cutaway
– Characteristic « Oval » soundhole, surrounded with a delicate multi-ply rosette
– Moustache bridge with, a compensated, movable center
– Geared 14:1 ratio, gold-plated, slotted peghead tuning machines
– Adjustable truss rod
– Trapeze tailpiece
– Shop adjusted