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http://acousticguitarvideos.com/4715/sw ... al-talent/

This is pretty amazing. Check it out.

Amazing indeed. If we'd had the Internet long ago, I wonder how many of us would have ever started a career as a guitarist/musician..

gee...zuz....! someone please tell me that's not an old de armond soundhole pickup.

chris ivey wrote:gee...zuz....! someone please tell me that's not an old de armond soundhole pickup.

Hi Chris
Those pickups are Stimer pickups, the type Django Reinhardt used. you can get reissues nowadays.
http://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/Cat ... er-pickups.
Pascal

the link is dead Pascal

ici :
http://www.djangostation.com/boutik/fr/ ... st-48.html

http://www.djangostation.com/boutik/fr/ ... elmer.html

http://www.guitare-village.com/micros/stimer.php

This is the result of a lot of work and a very encouraging environment. I don't know if he is a "manouche", but there have been quite a few prodigious players to come from these families (Bireli Lagrene, Jimmy Rosenberg, Boulou Ferre, etc.).