Django's 109th birthday

Jim Supreme Member Posts: 1,939 Location: Port Hope, Ontario, Canada Playing guitar since: circa 1960	Django's 109th birthday Jan 23, 2019 23:30:47 GMT -5 Derick likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jim on Jan 23, 2019 23:30:47 GMT -5 Django Reinhardt was born January 23, 1910. You may have to be a Facebook person to see this. Hot Club Of France Here's just the musical portion of the previous clip from YouTube:
	-1962 Martin D-21 -1950 Gibson LG1 -1958 Goya M-26 -1974 Yamaha FG75 high strung -A number of banjos, mandolins, Autoharps, ukuleles, dulcimers, mouth harps, a Tele clone and various other stuff. -I own a fiddle, but only play it when Maggie and the cats are all out of the house.

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Django's 109th birthday Jan 24, 2019 9:29:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 9:29:41 GMT -5 Lovely stuff! That fast two-fingered run is incredible. Incredible how he was able to overcome having two paralyzed fingers on his left hand.
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ladyssolo Supreme Member Posts: 1,267	Django's 109th birthday Jan 24, 2019 12:51:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ladyssolo on Jan 24, 2019 12:51:09 GMT -5 I can't even play anywhere near that well with all fingers working on both hands!

Jim Supreme Member Posts: 1,939 Location: Port Hope, Ontario, Canada Playing guitar since: circa 1960	Django's 109th birthday Jan 24, 2019 14:23:18 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jim on Jan 24, 2019 14:23:18 GMT -5 Yes, he could put the ring and pinky, injured in a caravan fire, down for chords, but the single string stuff was all done with just the bird and index fingers.
	-1962 Martin D-21 -1950 Gibson LG1 -1958 Goya M-26 -1974 Yamaha FG75 high strung -A number of banjos, mandolins, Autoharps, ukuleles, dulcimers, mouth harps, a Tele clone and various other stuff. -I own a fiddle, but only play it when Maggie and the cats are all out of the house.

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Django's 109th birthday Jan 24, 2019 18:46:33 GMT -5 Derick and ladyssolo like this

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Jan 24, 2019 12:51:09 GMT -5 ladyssolo said:

I can't even play anywhere near that well with all fingers working on both hands!

Take solace in the fact that his whole life was playing music from birth to death, where music may be central to our lives in terms of its importance, but the actual practice is actually a very small portion of it.

Tony

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