General JM-FAQs

Question: What is JazzManouche.de?

Answer:
JazzManouche.de is a website dedicated to and with lots of Infos and News, videos and more about the issue of Gypsyjazz (Jazz Manouche, Sintiswing, Sintijazz etc.).

On this website you can search and find all kinds of interesting information on the style like reading about news, cd-releases or dates from the Gypsyjazz-scene. We have built up the JM-Guitar-Gallery were you can take a look and research for about 1.800+ images about old Gypsyjazz-guitars like Selmer, Busato, Favino and DiMauro. In our article-series Features of original Busato-Guitars, Features of original DiMauro-guitars, Features of original Favino-Guitars and Features of original Selmer-Guitars you may read about the detailed descriptions of these rare guitar-models with images and lots of backgroundinfos.
In the JM-Download-Section users can download Grilles (Chord-charts), TABs and staff-transcriptions of well known Jazz- and Gypsyjazz-Songs. The more we offer Desktop-images, ringtones and rare Audio-recordings (just for Study) of famous Gypsyjazz-artist as (payed) download. Last but not least you may inform yourself about JM-history of the music and guitars, as of many infos on how to learn the style plus about our offered  Guitar-workshops and direct sign in if desired.

Question: What´s the meaning of the word "JazzManouche"?

Answer:
The word "JazzManouche" is put together from two words: "Jazz" the english word for this musicstyle.
"Manouche" is the french word for "Sinti, Gypsies, nomads". In France Gypsies always have been called "Manouches", "Bohemians" or "Sintis". "Jazz-Manouche" is the name for the musicstyle, Jazz that is played by Manouches (Gypsies).

Question: Why this website JazzManouche.de?

Answer:
To spread information and communication between all kinds of users, to interested people (wether musicians or not) in this musicstyle, no matter what nationality.
Plus spreading acceptance and grow emphasis for JazzManouche, Gypsyjazz, Swing and the music of Sinti and Roma further on thus keeping it alive, but to always stay in respect with the old culture of Sinti/Manouche all the same. The growth of understanding between Manouches and Non-manouche (Gadje) is also one of our explicit goals.

Question: Do i have to register at jazzmanouche.de ?

Answer:
No. You dont have to be registered at jazzmanouche.de to use our Website.
Just if you want to access certain areas of JM-User-restricted content such as the notations of Licks-of-the-Month-area, the JM-Guitar-Gallery or the JM-Downloads, access the big-size-detail-images of the JM-Guitargallery, you have to be a registered and logged-in JM-User. Also be sure to read our FAQ-answer on payed JM-User-accounts on this page.

Question: What are "Payed JM-User-accounts" and what are they good for?

Answer:
Since 2015 we do have three different new areas on our website:

1. Free content, freely accessible for every user without registering.
2. JM-User-reserved but free content, which is only accessable if you are a registered JM-User. As a registered and logged-in JM-User you will get (free) access to all areas where we provide free user-reserved content.
3. And third since 2015 we provide reserved content for our "paying registered JM-Users", users that want to help us make the website staying alive - as we do need to pay for all the cost.
   
   Become a paying member at JazzManouche.de and support our work!

So here´s what it´s like in details:

• By registering as a User at JazzManouche.de you will be able to pay and access the pay-content-pages we provide. Since 01.01. 2015 JazzManouche.de has become a payed website in some areas due to our cost of running this site. The pay-content is only accessable if you are a logged-in JM-User who has payed for a JM-User-Licence.
• the "JM-Lick-of-the-month"-notations. We provide notations and TABs of our Lick-of-the-month-series. Download only for logged-in JM-Users
• our free JM-Downloads. In our JM-download-area we provide many notations, TABs, chord-charts (Grilles) of almost all Jazz- and Jazzmanouche-tunes for free download.
• We provide big-size-detail-images inside our JM-Guitar-Gallery (1.800+ images). If you are not a registered and  logged-in paying JM-User you may watch all guitar-sections, the thumbail-images of our gallery as well as detailpages of all guitars. But if you want access to the Big-size-detail-images on these pages (which is the interesting part if you want to see a guitar in detail) you have to be logged in to be able to pay and after watch these images.
• Some other areas and article-series which will be reserved for our paying logged-in JM-Users

Question: What are JM-User-licences and how much do they cost ?

Answer:
For giving unlimited access to ALL pay-content-pages on JazzManouche.de we are now offering so called "JM-User-Licences" on our newly designed website.

These licences, to keep it simple, are "time-limited accesstimes" for certain parts of the complete website for our registered and logged-in JM-Users.

This means you need to be a registered JM-User who pays a certain amount for a licence to view the whole website with all of its parts freely with no limitation but for a defined limited time.

Included in these JM-User-Licences is the chosen time-limited but otherwise unlimited access to all of our pages and articles that contain pay-content, the JM-Downloads and the detail-view inside the JM-Guitar-Gallery (with over 1800 detail-images of old Selmer-, Busato, Favino- or DiMauro-Guitars), one of the biggest Online-Archives of old Gypsyjazz-Guitars). Also included is the cost for the Paypal-transaction (which is 7% of every of every transaction).

The JM-User-Licences are split up in the following price-categories:

• JM-Premium-User - limited Access 7 days - Price: 4,99 €
• JM-Silver-User - limited Access 30 days - Price: 9,99 €
• JM-Gold-User - limited Access 90 days - Price: 29,99 €
• JM-Platinum-User - unlimited Access 365 days - Price: 49,99 €

Be sure to become a paying registered JM-User (registration is free!) just right now to support our work!

Not convinced yet? Read our details about your benefits becoming a (paying) JM-User.

Question: How do i pay for a "Payed JM-User-account" ?

Answer:
To access the pay-content pages is very easy for registered JM-Users.

Just click on the link "Pay to read more" on any page that contains the link anywhere on the webpage. You will then be presented a short menu where you may choose your desired time-licence. When done you´ll get redirected to the external Paypal-webpage where you can pay the chosen amount with your paypal-account or credtidcard if you dont have any (you may open one as well...).
When the payment is done you´ll get redirected back to our webpages and you´ll emidiately get free access to ALL pay-content-pages with no limitations for the time of you licence whenever you are logged-in.

After the licence has expired te access is limited again and you may pay for a new licence as well or renew the one you had by again paying for it (same process).
Here are the prices for access:

• • JM-Premium-User - limited Access 7 days - Price: 4,99 €
  • JM-Silver-User - limited Access 30 days - Price: 9,99 €
  • JM-Gold-User - limited Access 90 days - Price: 29,99 €
  • JM-Platinum-User - unlimited Access 365 days - Price: 49,99 €

On questions how to become a registered member please read our FAQs for Registration.

So be sure to become a paying JM-User right now to get unlimited access to ALL of our pages and to support our work for running this page!

Question: What means the link "Pay to read more" in some articles ?

Answer:
Like already described above has jazzmanouche.de changed into a website with 3 different types of content:
free content readable for everyone, JM-User restricted-content (readable only for Logged-in JM-Users) and "payable content" for logged-in JM-Users who upgraded their account to add a payed JM-User-licence for unlimited timebound access.

Some of the single- or articles-series and other sections in our website have become payed content since 2015, so whenever you see the link "Pay to read more" this means you may only read on if you are a registered and logged-in JM-User who has payed for a licence to read ALL content-areas with no limitations.

Read more about JM-User-licences in the FAQs above.

Question: Who is the owner of JazzManouche.de?

Answer:
JazzManouche.de was invented in 2007 by Bertino Rodmann who still runs the website today. Himself beeing a musician and guitarrist who plays the style of JazzManouche since the early 1980ies, Bertino had the idea of bringing live a guitar-archive online which contain all important informations of the rare and old Gypsyjazz-Guitars like Selmer-, Busato-, Favino- and DiMauro-Guitars. So he started this website for that purpose at first, building up the JM-Guitar-gallery first with just a few images.  JazzManouche.de started by this idea, adding more and more information around this content.

Today JazzManouche.de has become one of the most detailed websites on the net about JazzManouche, Swing and the music of Django Reinhardt, Sinti & Roma offering lots of infos more all around the issue...

Question: What´s the use of the Menu "JM-User"?

Answer:
In this menu Users have direct access to their own personal profile with Name eMail, adress and password. just the username isnt changeable afte registering with us.

Question: What is the JM-Guitar-Gallery?

Answer:
The JM-Guitar-Gallery a very detailed online archive for old and rare Gypsyguitars for research or just to watch for fans of old guitars from Selmer-, Busato-, Favino- or DiMauro-Guitars

If you like to present your own Selmer-, Busato-, Favino- or DiMauro-Guitar inside our guitar-gallery with images please send us an eMail with your images (max. 1MB per image as .jpg, .png or .tif) from the certain category.  We will insert your images into our gallery after checking for quality and originality. Please be away of the fact that there is no claim of releasing your images for sure (e.g. if quality is too weak or else reason) ... we hope you will understand.

Question: How can i register at JazzManouche.de ?

Answer:
To find infromation on how to register at our website please referr to our FAQs for Registration

Question: How can i delete my User-account at JazzManouche.de ?

Answer:
If you want to cancel your user-account at our website just send an eMail wtith the subject "Cancel my account at JazzManouche.de" to " account-loeschen [ at ] JazzManouche.de " (please replace the [at] to "@" without bracket or spaces) together with your username and registered eMail-Adress. Our Webmaster will cancel (erase) your account for you get in contact with you and to inform you about.

Question: Why can´t i log-In at JazzManouche.de ?

Answer:
This may have 3 different reasons.

1.) You have not registered for a User-Account at JazzManouche.de at all (please read the FAQs for Registration). You can only log-into our website if you are a registered and confirmed JM-user (Member).

or

2.) You have yet not confirmed your registered User-Account at JazzManouche.de (please again read the FAQs for Registration). By confirming your newly opened account we want to avoid the misuse of eMail-Adresses by third-parties.

Important: please be away that your User-Account (newly created while registering) will be erased again automatically by our system after 24 hours if you did NOT confirm it within this time!

If you did not log-into our website for more than 90 days your account will not be erased emediately but again put back to the state of beeing unconfirmed! This may also be one reason why you cannot log-in. (the reason for this: we need to keep our database clean without unused orphaned User-Accounts). If you want to reactivate your account you need to reconfirm your account to be able to use it again. If you dont reconfirm after 180 days your account will be erased finally.

3.) You may have wrongly entered your Username or Password. Please take care to the exact way of writing like you entered it when you were registering with us (take care to BIG- and small-letters as our system distinguishes these!)

4.) if you still cannot log-in for some reason even if you followed all the instructions given in the FAQs for Registration you may contact our " webmaster [ at ] JazzManouche.de " (please replace the [at] to "@" without bracket or spaces). He will then get in touch with you and help you out.

Question: Why do i get no confirmation-eMail after registering ?

Answer:
This may also different reasons:

Please at first check your eMail-account that you used while registering. Be sure to also look inside any Spam-folders (on your local machine as well as with your eMail-Provider) for an eMail with sender  "do-not-reply [at] jazzmanouche.de" and the subject "Registration at JazzManouche.de".
If you have NO confirmation-eMails at all it seems something went wrong while registering. Please try again to go thru the registering-process like described in our FAQs for Registration.

Hint: if while registering again you get the message that your Username or eMail-Adress is registered already, it seems you MUST have received a confirmation-eMail before, but you did not activate your confirmation-link inside that eMail. Please be sure to do that within 24 hours after registering.

You have followed all the steps and there is still no registration-process goin on, no activation-eMail coming in?
Just contact our webmaster via eMail to " webmaster [ at ] JazzManouche.de " (please replace the [at] to "@" without brackets or spaces). He will then contact you and help you out with the registration.

Question: I have forgot my Password, how do i get a new one ?

Answer:
If you have lost or forgot your password you may let send a reminder to your registered eMail-adress.
Please go to this page "Lost Passwort or Username" and follow the instructions on this page. You will then receive an eMail within a couple of minutes with an activation-link. Click this link within the next minutes an you will get redirected to another page where you can enter a new password.

Important hint: if you lost your password and you get a new password sent by eMail to your entered adress it is a good idea to change your sent password to a new one after log-in inside your JM-User-Profile!

Question: I have lost or forgot my JM-Username, how can i get reminded?

Answer:
If you have lost or forgot your JM-Username you may let send a reminder to your registered eMail-adress.
Please go to this page "Lost Passwort or Username" and follow the instructions on this page. You will then receive an eMail within a couple of minutes with your Jm-username.

Important hint: your JM-username CANNOT be changed after registration. This is for security-reasons and should preserve misuse of usernames and data.

Question: How can i subscribe for the JazzManouche.de-Newsletter ?

Answer:
Please click inside the menu JM-User-area -> JM-Newsletter. At the bottom of this page you can enter your eMail-adress and hit "JM-Newsletter subscribe" or "JM-Newsletter unsubscribe". If subscription was successful you will receive an confirmation-eMail that you are successfully subscribed and will receive our JM-Newsletter.

Question: How can i unsubscribe for the JazzManouche.de-Newsletter ?

Answer:
Please click inside the menu JM-User-area -> JM-Newsletter. At the bottom of this page you can enter your eMail-adress and hit "JM-Newsletter subscribe" or "JM-Newsletter unsubscribe".
You will then receive an confirmation-eMail that you are successfully un-subscribed and will no more receive our JM-Newsletter.

Question: How can i signup for the Masterclass-Workshops ?

Answer:
You may sign up for one of the next masterclasses directly on our website. Take a look at the menu -> JM-Learning -> JM-Masterclasses -> LIVE-Masterclass -> MC - Sign up
You will then receive a confirmation-eMail from your successful subscription with further instructions on details and payment.

For further Informations on the given masterclasses be sure to read the Masterclass-FAQs.

Question: I have questions to LIVE- or Online-Workshops (Masterclass) ?

Answer:
For Informations on the given masterclasses be sure to read the Masterclass-FAQs.

Question: How can i get in contact with the makers of JazzManouche.de ?

Answer:
Just click here and send us an eMail