Left Hand Cafe Americain Manon Gypsy Jazz Guitar, From France Absolutely Beautiful.

Brand new, beautiful left hand Manon 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 left-hand 2017 model Manon Bouche Ovale (oval 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, a superb, a beautiful Gypsy Jazz guitar for the left handed player.

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 producing a few hundred guitars a year, their guitars are well made, sound excellent, and while for the professional musician they 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 O-mouth design is as the original French Maccaferri-Selmer guitars.

  Really 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 has the distinctive Gypsy Jazz sound for the player who wants to play Swing or Jazz Manouche.

The soundboard is solid German Spruce, and the back and sides are beautiful well-figured Indian Rosewood (which accounts for the excellent full rounded traditional French tone.)  Drive this guitar and 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, and has a felt-padded brass tail-piece with a solid piece of Rosewood.

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 Manon 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
·   Bouche Ovale (oval) soundhole
·   Horizontal Cut-a-way
·   Nut width 44 mm
·   Adjustable Truss rod
·   Fast, slim, easy to play neck

From France, an excellent left-hand Café Américain Manon 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, but I have the guitar on sale at $511 or you are welcome to make a reasonable offer.

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 visit our Reverb online store and see our full line of beautiful Gypsy Jazz guitars and accessories.

My Best Wishes for Your Guitar Playing.