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It is now that the world community must actCurrently I agonize the Union I saw riseIts website public Happyneuron claims some 4000 subscribersSee youThere is a slight better since May It is also in relation to computer managers This could be the beginning of a trade warFor the lowest price is not necessarily the bestEvoke Meaux makes it one of his favorite exercisesThe next ten years the operator could be as hectic as the first tenThe grey metal accounts for about 10 in the profits of the group"I only play guitar myself but I have a good ear, and I listen to the musicians."Best worker of France in 1989 guitars, Maurice Dupont is an atypical luthier. As a child, the son of grocer of Cognac repaired bicycles, mopeds and toys, and later built reduced flying planes in balsa models, participating even in France Championships. "I was curious of everything, and I had even made musical instruments, a banjo and guitar, following a review of DIY plans."
Once the technical tray option Pocket mechanical construction, Maurice Dupont between at the IUT of mechanical engineering at Bordeaux. It will not go beyond the first year. "I was nineteen years old, and during holidays in Scandinavia, I met a French whose brother was a school of lutherie in Italy." For me, this was the spark. Until then, I considered the manufacture of musical instruments as a hobby in the same way as the maquettisme. That day, I discovered that this could be a trade. "Another meeting will clarify his vocation. "On a Parisian salon, I met Jacques Favino, luthier of Georges Brassens." We have sympathized and it made me discover his workshop. On his advice, I undertook training of cabinetmaker. The material and tools are the same, and a good cabinetmaker can easily make a guitar.
After a passage in Camac, which produces harps near Ancenis, aspiring luthier returned to Cognac and began making guitars in the garage of his parents, while part-time educator for children with disabilities. In July 1981, Maurice Dupont crossed the Charente and installs his studio in a former distillery of water, to boutiers riding Centre, a stone's throw from Cognac. His participation on the adventure of a dinner theatre in Cognac allows contacts with musicians, and sell a few instruments. His productions are beginning to be recognized and the development of the activity allows it to hire a companion. In 1986, it is the turning point for the small charentais workshop. Maurice Dupont manufactures a replica in the same of the Django Reinhardt Selmer guitar. "This guitar designed in 1932 by luthier Mario Maccaferri, was the first Gypsy jazz guitar." At the time, it was an instrument that was neglected, considered an old guitar. I resumed the torch involuntarily, at the time where the Parisian luthiers who produced this type of instrument were taking their retirement.
The Gypsy jazz then began its revival, and the workshop begins to have clients. In the 1990s, it took a foot on the American market. "There, Django is a myth, and as I was doing the quality, I had a lot of articles in the American press, and I much sold." Eric Clapton bought me a guitar, among my clients from abroad are also Hank Marvin, guitarist of the Shadows, Steve Miller, or the American bluesman Lurrie Bell. We have also provided three guitars for the Woody Allen film "Agreements and disagreements" with Sean Penn, which tells the life of a guitar player in the 1930s. "In France, Maurice Dupont is luthier, among others, Paris Combo, Thomas Dutronc, Sanseverino, Birelli Lagrčne or Raphael Fays.
Since the workshop grew, it now employs about fifteen employees, for an annual production of 3-400 instruments, and a turnover in the order of 750,000 euros.
Guitar Maurice Dupont, became the standard for Gypsy jazz guitar, represents each year with more than 200 copies sold of 2,200 to 6500 euros, more than half of its production. But Maurice Dupont does not limit its activity to the Gypsy guitar. "I like all styles, and I manufactures all kinds of guitars, classical, folk and electric."
Most of the work, in the manufacture of a guitar,
is done by hand, which does not preclude the workshop have invested in a milling machine numerical control for the roughing of the pieces of wood. To make a guitar, must be one to two months, and each instrument is manufactured
from A to Z by a seulcompagnon.
Broadcast directly to customers or stores, Maurice Dupont guitars are exported around the world. "Until the crisis, which has affected us as of 2007-2008, we were growing each year." What is worrying,
This is the number of resellers of instruments which are in red. And of the dollar delineated. Before the crisis, we export up to 40 of our production. It is more difficult today.
