Selmer-Maccaferri guitar

Selmer-Maccaferri and Selmer style replica guitars
Manufacturer	Selmer
Period	1932-1952
Body type	Archtop-Selmer
Neck joint	Dovetail
Body	European Spruce (Picea abies) [original] or Sitka Spruce / Engelmann spruce [modern] top Rosewood or Mahogany back and sides
Neck	Mahogany
Fretboard	Rosewood
Bridge	Rosewood
Natural

The Selmer Guitar (often called a Selmer-Maccaferri or just Maccaferri by anglophones, as its inventor's rather than manufacturer's name was stressed in the early British advertising) is an unusual acoustic guitar best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt. It was produced by Selmer, a French manufacturer, from 1932 to about 1952.

In 1932 Selmer partnered with the Italian guitarist and luthier Mario Maccaferri to produce a line of acoustic guitars based on Maccaferri's unorthodox design. Although Maccaferri's association with Selmer ended in 1934, the company continued to make several models of this guitar until 1952. The guitar was closely associated with famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

In its archetypal steel-string Jazz/Orchestre form, the Selmer is quite an unusual-looking instrument, distinguished by a fairly large body with squarish bouts, and either a "D"-shaped or longitudinal oval soundhole. The strings pass over a moveable bridge and are gathered at the tail, as on a mandolin. Two "mustache" markers are fixed to the soundboard to help position the movable bridge. The top of the guitar is gently arched or domed—a feature achieved by bending a flat piece of wood rather than by the violin-style carving used in archtop guitars. The top is also rather thin, at about 2 mm (0.079 in). It has a comparatively wide fretboard (about 47 mm or 1.850 in at the nut) and a snake-shaped, slotted . The back and top are both ladder-braced, which was the norm for French and Italian steel-string guitars of the time (unlike American guitars, which frequently employed X-braced tops by this period).

Other models can be more conventional in appearance and construction, with the Modèle Classique, for example, essentially being a standard fan-braced, flat-top classical guitar.