Selmers aren't like the more familiar "flat top" acoustic guitar. The style began with an Italian luthier named Mario Maccaferri. In the early 1930s, he perfected a guitar design incorporating a ...

In the veteran camp are Mario Maccaferri, a supreme innovator who designed guitars for Django Reinhardt, and ex-vaudevillian Roy Smeck, who helped make ukuleles the rage for 35 years. Young master ...