Selmer-Maccaferri Guitar

The Selmer-Maccaferri Guitar is an unusual guitar best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt. Early models have a large, D-shaped soundhole, which was shaped specifically to accommodate the internal resonator invented by luthier Mario Maccaferri. The scale and fretting of the guitar is very similar to contemporary Gibson and Martin guitars, with the wide fingerboard expected on a classical guitar. Later models, produced by Selmer, have a tall oval soundhole instead.

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Guitar - Django Reinhardt - Soundhole - Resonator - Luthier - Mario Maccaferri - Fret - Gibson - Martin - Fingerboard - Classical guitar - Selmer

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The resonator was not a successful innovation, and very few remaining instruments retain the resonator. It was prone to buzzing and rattling; most were removed.

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