Django Reinhardt's Hand Never Fully Healed, So He Built His Guitar Style Around It [News]

Features: The fire that cost Django Reinhardt the use of two fingers started with a knocked-over candle among his wife's stock of celluloid flowers, in the caravan they shared outside Paris. He was 18, already turning heads playing banjo-guitar in the dance halls, and spent roughly 18 months recovering before it was clear whether he'd play again.