Selmer guitar
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The Selmer guitar — often called a Selmer-Maccaferri or just Maccaferri by English speakers, as early British advertising stressed the designer rather than manufacturer — is an unusual acoustic guitar
Selmer-Maccaferri and Selmer style replica guitars
Reconstruction of a portion of the Selmer-Maccaferri guitar workshop (1933), Musée de la Musique exhibition, 2012
Tony Green's "Gypsy Jazz" group photographed in New Orleans in 2012. The lead player (right) performs on a "petite bouche", oval hole Selmer-style instrument; the rhythm player (left) uses a modern modification of the original Selmer "grande bouche" / D-hole instrument, with 14 frets clear of the body as opposed to the 12 frets of the original design.
Original (?) oval-hole / "petite bouche" Selmer guitar being played by Stochelo Rosenberg, 2012
Mario Maccaferri
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Mario Maccaferri was an Italian luthier, classical guitarist, businessman, and inventor. He is noted for designing the guitar favored by jazz musician Django Reinhardt, and for designing plastic cloth
Selmer guitar
…Reinhardt. Selmer, a French manufacturer, produced the instrument from 1932 to about 1952. In 1932 Selmer partnered with the Italian guitarist and luthier Mario Maccaferri to produce a line of acoustic guitars based on Maccaferri's unorthodox design. Although Maccaferri's association with Selmer ended in 1934, the company…
Maccaferri plastic guitar