Altamira M40F Gypsy Jazz Guitar | Demo

Our M40 guitar is a Selmer-Maccaferri style instrument suitable for gypsy jazz music popularised by the great Django Reinhardt. This model features striking F holes and has an antique finish. Here is a demo played by Sam O’Halloran. Website: Sam O’Halloran: The Selmer-Maccaferri is a special steel stringed guitar best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt. Selmer, a French manufacturer, produced the instrument 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 jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. In its archetypal steel-string Jazz/Orchestre form, the Selmer is distinguished by a fairly large body