| When the young classical guitarist & luthier Mario
Maccaferri showed his prototype guitars to Henri Selmer in the early 1930's,
he was immediately put in charge of the new guitar building division of
Selmer Musical Instruments. Maccaferri then assembled a workforce
of mainly Italian craftsmen, designed all of the new models and created
the tooling necessary to produce them.
The first models that went into production were
all build for gut strings, the flagship model being the "Concert".
This model had many features that deviated from the normal gut string guitar,
namely a larger cutaway body, sealed tuners, two piece bridge
and large D-shaped sound hole. |
