Superb jazz guitar produced in the workshop of Antoine Di Mauro, this Boogie-Woogie model was made in Paris in the second half of the 1940s.
The Boogie-Woogie is the most essential of the jazz guitars produced in the workshop situated at 50, rue de la Réunion – and perhaps the closest to the original spirit of the European steel-string guitar as designed by Mario Maccaferri in collaboration with Selmer in the previous decade! Indeed, it is the only one in the catalog to have a neck with 12 frets clear of the body and a large oval sound hole (the same one which earned the Selmer-Maccaferri models the nickname Grande Bouche).
Romanian spruce top, maple back and sides, rosewood fingerboard. This guitar is very well preserved with all of its original parts, including its varnish (the Di Mauro catalog makes a point of stipulating that “all [his] instruments are entirely varnished with French polish”), its maple pickguard inlaid in the table, as well as its tailpiece, rather crude in nature but identical to the one visible in the catalog illustration! We worked hard to restore all of the qualities as a musical instrument to this Boogie-Woogie, work including complete refret, making a new bone head nut, the adjustment of the shape of the bridge to obtain a low action and accurate intonation.
Sold in a new Boblen case, fitted to the guitar.
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