ON SALE! Cafe Americain Gypsy Jazz Guitar, From France Devan II Student Model.

ON SALE!!!!!!! FROM FRANCE, CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN DEVAN II 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.

This is the 2017 and latest version of the workshops student to intermediate level Gypsy Jazz guitar, the excellent Devan II. An exceptional instrument to learn to play Gypsy Jazz and Swing.

LAST ONE!

For the next week we have ON SALE the beautiful Devan II student Gypsy Jazz guitar. It is our last one as we are selling all our US stock as we are moving our operations back to France.  All future sales will ship from France and, unfortunately, cost considerably more.

The Devan II 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, but still slim, 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 and unique style.

About Café Américain, it is a small traditional workshop/company that produces a few hundred guitars a year, their guitars are beautiful, well made, and sound excellent.

Now about the guitar… the beautiful 2017 Devan II model is an easy-to-handle 650mm short scale guitar that measures 40mm across the lower bout. It has a Bouche Ovale 21 fret fretboard, with a 14 fret neck-join, its design taken from the first French Maccaferri-Selmer guitar. This is the latest version of this very popular guitar.

It has an easy action, driving sound, with the cutting tone you would expect from a Gypsy Jazz guitar. Easy to play it is exceptional for the new or intermediate player who wants to learn Swing or Jazz Manouche.

The soundboard is high-grade 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 felt-padded brass tail-piece, with a Rosewood insert, 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:-

·   Devan II Model
·   European Spruce top
·   True Indian Rosewood back and sides
·   Rosewood fretboard, fret-head, and bridge.
·   21-frets including a zero fret

·   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

Suggested retail price for this excellent guitar is $995.00, but we have it ON SALE for the next week at $481.00.

THIS IS OUR LAST ONE.

From France, a Café Américain Devan II 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.

At the moment we cannot ship this guitar overseas.  If you'd like to discuss this please message me.

Please visit our Reverb Online store and see all our Gypsy Jazz guitars and accessories.

My Best Wishes for Your Guitar Playing