Gitane DG250 Gypsy Jazz Guitar In Natural
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Gitane DG250 Gypsy Jazz Guitar in Natural
Perfect for playing Hot Club de Paris, Parisian Swing, Django Rheinhardt!
"The Saga D250M is just an all-around great guitar, not even considering the price which puts it in reach of players who are just starting to learn gypsy jazz and players who want to have this particular tone in their acoustic arsenal. This instrument's design and dimensions were taken from a vintage Selmer, down to the unusual solid headstock and 3 ply back and sides which feature a stunning bird's eye maple veneer, just like the original. Where normally ply is considered less than desirable in a conventional flat top guitar, in a gypsy style guitar it is the first choice for authenticity and function for the back and sides. The top of the guitar is solid spruce, not carved or pressed but rather glued to radiused braces to give the top a property of being slightly stressed, which creates the responsive snap characteristic of properly built gypsy guitars. The soundhole is a "petit bouche", a small oval shape surrounded by a yellow and brown multi-layer rosette.
The neck meets the body at the 14th fret and is not too boaty, not too slim, nice and comfortable. Adjustable with a truss rod, this is an improvement over the original Selmers; which had non-adjustable reinforcement rods imbedded in the neck.
The ebony fingerboard features mother of pearl dots at the 5th, 7th, 10th (French style) 12th and 15th frets, and has smoothly finished medium sized frets which provide just enough room to grab the strings for bending."
John Jorgenson for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine - 9/8/2003
The Saga Gitane DG-250 Gypsy Jazz Guitar features:
Gypsy-Jazz Acoustic guitar
Solid spruce top
Rosewood back and sides
Horizontal cutaway
Multiple ebony/maple purfling on all edges
Characteristic oval soundhole
Moustache bridge with movable center
Thin, comfortable, bound mahogany neck
Dovetail neck/body joint
Slotted headstock with rosewood overlay
Extended 24-fret ebony fingerboard
Mother-of-pearl dot markers
Body size- 12-fret neck joint - Scale length 251.4” - Nut width 17.8” - Body length 181.2” - Lower bout 16” - Upper bout 111.4” - 14:1 ratio geared nickel-plated tuning machines
Adjustable truss rod
Trapeze tailpiece
Bone nut, zero fret
Shop-adjusted
Important Note
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