Classical guitar

Back

Back

Tone port.

Kasha style bridge, wide on the bass side, narrow on the treble.

Headstock

Rosette, showing bound fibgerboard.

Upper bout.

Binding and purfling detail at back.

Selmer style "Jazz" guitar, solid headstock model.

Selmer back and side.

Back grain detail.

Headstock, front.

Headstock back, showing Gotoh "vintage" tuners.

Rosette, using copper wire set in epoxy, for lines.

Selmer style tailpiece.

Tone port.

Cherry body, white cedar soundboard. Kasha style bracing.

Showing "three piece" style construction and old style heel.

Tone Ports do not degrade the tone of the instrument. Their greatest function is to act as a "monitor" to the player, allowing some of the sound to project towards the players ear.

Most Selmers used open slots for tuners, in the style of classical guitars. The birds eye maple model used a conventional solid headstock.

Styled after Mozzani. Mario Macaferri the initiator of the Selmer guitars, (though he had left the complany by the time the Jazz models were being produced) had worked for Mozzani and was influenced by him.