FROM FRANCE LEFT HAND CAFE AMERICAIN GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR, SABINE MODEL LH

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;Brand: Café Américain
;Type: Jazz Manouche
;MPN: Does Not Apply
;Color: Natural
;String Configuration: 6 String
;String Type: Steel
;Style: Gypsy Jazz
;Guitar Length: Full Body 670mm Scale
;Hand: Left Hand
;UPC: Does not apply

FROM FRANCE LEFT HAND CAFE AMERICAIN GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR, SABINE MODEL LH

FROM FRANCE, CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR

Brand new, the beautiful left hand Sabine model.

Welcome to the Classical-Workshop in beautiful Arizona. Thank you for taking time to look at this excellent handcrafted Gypsy Jazz guitar from the workshop of Café Américain.

This is their beautiful left-hand 2014 model Sabine Bouche Ovale (O-mouth) guitar for the left-handed player who wishes to play Gypsy Jazz.  The workshop only makes a few left hand models at a time and we are very happy to bring these to our customers.  It is however the last left hand guitar we will have for quite a while.... the workshop is sold out for the year.... it is the only one we have been able to get.  It is superb, a beautiful Gypsy Jazz guitar.

Gypsy Jazz evolved in Europe in the 1930s when French Django Reinhardt, playing a Maccaferri/Selmer guitar in smoke-filled Paris clubs, combined his Gypsy guitar playing style with the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington producing a wonderful and inventive new form of music, Gypsy Jazz; also known in France as Jazz Manouche.

Today Jazz Manouche is played worldwide, the tradition lives, and is enjoyed by guitarists everywhere.

Café Américain is a small French workshop that produces only a few hundred guitars a year, their guitars are well made, sound excellent, and are easy to play.

This guitar is a full size 670 mm scale instrument, with a deep 4 inch body, measuring 40.5 cm across the lower bout.  It comes with the 23 and 2 half-fret fretboard with a 14th fret neck-join at the body, this allows for both rhythm and aggressive lead playing.  It's D-mouth design is as the original French Maccaferri-Selmer guitars.

Beautiful slim neck, with a fast action, a driving sound, with a big cutting tone you would expect from a Gypsy Jazz guitar.  Beautiful looks and distinctive Gypsy Jazz sound the guitar is for the player who wants to play Swing or Jazz Manouche.

The soundboard is solid Canadian Red Cedar, and the back and sides are a beautiful well-figured Indian Rosewood (which accounts for the excellent full rounded tone.)  Drive this guitar and you can 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, and has a felt-padded brass tail-piece.

The guitar also comes with the well padded, Café Américain case shown in the pictures, plus I will include sheets of Gypsy Jazz music both in TAB and standard notation.

A little about  myself, I spend my summers in France, firstly attending in Spring 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:-

·    Left hand Sabine Model
·    Solid Spruce top
·    Rosewood back and sides
·    Rosewood fretboard, fret-head, and bridge.
·    21 frets
·    Zero fret
·    670 mm scale length
·    40.5 cm width across the lower bout
·    Floating Mustache bridge
·    Grand Bouche “D-mouth” soundhole
·    Horizontal Cut-a-way
·    Nut width 44 mm
·    Adjustable Truss rod
·    Fast, slim, easy to play neck

From France, a left-hand Café Américain Sabine Model for the musician who is looking for an authentic Gypsy Jazz guitar, built in the tradition of Maccaferri and Selmer.

The guitar is new and any marks you see in the photos are light reflections.

Suggested retail price in the US with its well padded, rigid foam, lightweight case is $1,695.00, however we do have it on offer.  But please know that this is the last left handed Gypsy Jazz guitar we have and, while we are trying to get more, it will be next year at the earliest. 

Overseas shipping is from the US, the cost to Canada is $59, to the UK and most of the EU is $95.  Please contact me for shipping to other countries.   All shipping includes insurance of course.  Import duties or taxes outside of the US, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask, I have had a lifetime with guitars and will happily chat about them.  Or email me if you wish to know more about Gypsy Jazz or how to set up your guitar.

Please click Classical-Workshop to visit our eBay store and see our full line of Gypsy Jazz guitars and accessories.

My Best Wishes for Your Guitar Playing

FROM FRANCE LEFT HAND CAFE AMERICAIN GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR, SABINE MODEL LH

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