The Birth of the Maccaferri Guitar in its Historical, Geographical and Cultural Context | Blog

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The Birth of the Maccaferri Guitar in its Historical, Geographical and Cultural Context | Blog

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MichaelHorowitz

Thanks again to Riccardo for writing this fascinating piece!

Gouch

Thanks Riccardo, this is a very enlightening and well-written article!

DoubleWhisky

Thank you for this interesting and profound read and for sharing this knowledge!

littlemark

Love the architectural idea.

Rip

When I saw the picture of the headstock against the backdrop of the building, I felt like I was watching the Davinci Code.

paulmcevoy75

That was great, thank you.

This Bach recording is quite beautiful, thanks for that.

Buco

Yes, I never realized there were recordings with Mario on classical guitar. He was amazingly good player.

That was fun to read, great insights. Thank you!

MichaelHorowitz

@Buco the Maccaferri recordings have been in our audio archives for ages:

https://www.djangobooks.com/blog/mario_maccaferri_plays_classical_guitar/

theres also this one:

https://www.djangobooks.com/archives/maccaferri_granados.mp3

Buco

How the heck did I not see this before and I've been here a day longer than ages?!

lucky

Thanks, I enjoyed reading that. Is much known about what happened to him after his brief stint with Selmer? Wikipedia says he died in 1993, about sixty years after that time. I know he made that plastic guitar and was involved in the Ibanez Macs but not much else beyond that. Was he connected with the gypsy jazz scene in any way later in life? I wonder if he ever actually met Django?

Wiki also says his career as a classical player was cut short by a hand injury which is ironic.