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Originally Posted by 82Benedetto Selmer was, fairly recently, working on reproductions of their original guitars. Near exact reproductions. I believe there were a couple made....and Stochelo has one.
From what I've seen and heard, they were phenomenal, but for some reason they didn't continue with the project. |
I think these were built by... if I remember correctly luthier Jean Barault. He took the initiative, built one guitar (for Bireli) and showed it to Selmer. They liked it and started considering a commemorative series of 10 "Selmer by Selmer" (by Jean Barault) guitars. Jean built a second guitar... and then Selmer cancelled the project.
According to Jean Barault, having a Selmer guitar that was not built in the Selmer workshops was considered not to be an option.
Jean Barault was building his own Selmer copies before this episode, and still builds them (for Bireli Lagrene, Tchavolo Schmidt...).