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 best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt. Selmer, a French manufacturer, produced the instrument from 1932 to about 1952.
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
Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Like the modern classical guitar, it is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar, or sometimes as a folk guitar.
A Gibson SJ200 model
Fingerpicking a steel-string guitar
A C.F. Martin Eric Clapton model
Fender DG-41SCE
