“It’s the same brand of guitar used by the great Django Reinhardt [actually Mario Maccaferri only designed the Selmer Modèle Orchestre guitar with an internal resonator that preceded the ...

Those guitars had their own sound and look, though, and were not meant to mimic traditional wood instruments. Plastic was next, thanks to an entrepreneurial Italian builder named Mario Maccaferri.

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 ...