GUITAR COLLECTIONS

The musical instrument industry appears to have forever evolved when it comes to making unusual guitars. Here’s a quick roundup of a different acoustic guitar release, best known as the Selmer Guitar, D-Hole Guitar or just “Maccaferri”. It was produced by Selmer from 1932 to about 1952.

Selmer Guitar is an unusual looking musical instrument, distinguished by a reasonably large body with squarish bouts, and either a “D”-shaped (early models, 1932-1933) or length-ways oval sound-hole. The strings pass over a mobile bridge and are tucked at the tail like an archtop guitar.

The top might be softly arched or domed – this is accomplished by bending a flat piece of wood rather than by carving, as in a Gibson-style archtop. It also has a wide fingerboard and slotted head like a nylon-string guitar. Unusually, the back and top are both ladder-braced.

Today, the Selmer guitar is almost entirely connected with Django Reinhardt and the “gypsy jazz” school of his followers. From the 1930s through to the 1950s, however, Selmers were used by all types of performers in France and in the early days in the UK. More recently, the style of guitar (an alteration built up by Favino) has been associated with Enrico Macias.

Selmer didn’t make large numbers of guitars (fewer than 1,000 were ever built up), and the company ceased production entirely by 1952, so original Selmers command very high prices More recently other luthiers and small shops have provided either accurate copies or versions and extensions of Selmer blueprints, including Maurice Dupont and Gallato in France and Hanno Kiehl in Norway..

Selmer Guitar, D-Hole Guitar, Maccaferri

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