TYPE
Acoustic Hollow Body Steel string guitar with cutaway
FEATURES
French spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, walnut neck
Ebony fretboard
INFORMATION
More commonly known as the Selmer Maccaferri, the Selmer guitar has a unique shape and sound and is particularly associated with one figure: the incomparable Belgian-born Roma Guitarist Django Reinhardt. The guitar was first produced in 1932 by the French Selmer. The body of this instrument was designed to accommodate the internal resonator of the Italian guitarist and luthier Mario Maccaferri. The Selmer’s body is visually striking for its unusually perpendicular cutaway, which made the highest frets more accessible, and for Art Nouveau decoration of the D-shaped soundhole, often referred to as le grand bouche.
