The guitars of the brothers DiMauro which mainly were built between 1930 and 1976 always have had the highest prestige amongst Gypsyjazz-players worldwide. It is known that even Django Reinhardt played DiMauro-guitars (see image below).
Even if not as famous as the instruments of the other famous makers (Selmer, Busato, Favino) the brothers DiMauro always gave their instruments a very unique and special personal character. In this article about Feautures of original DiMauros we briefly describe the most common details of DiMauro-Guitars, with description and images.
Special inlays, a special kind of pickguard or the form of the soundhole - Di-Mauro-Guitars have always been something special in the kind of their making.
The guitar-models built by the two brothers DiMauro over the years had serveral names or models:
"Boogie Woogie", "Heart", "Saint Louis Blues", "Modele Jazz", "Chorus" or "Special Chorus" and "Special Chorus DeLuxe". Later on they created two elektric Jazz-Guitar-Models named "E 1" and "E 2" with one or two pickups installed.
Modele "Swing"
"Boogie Woogie"
Modele "Heart"
Modele
"Saint Louis Blues"
Modele "Jazz"
Modele "Special
Chorus Deluxe"
Modele "Jazz E 1"
One very unique and outstanding Guitar-series of Di Mauro´s always has been the models called
"Chorus", "Special Chorus" or "Special Chorus DeLuxe" which existed in different makings.
(here you may take a look at the whole catalogue)
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