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• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  March 18 Posts: 5,308

  Neat!

  

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  March 20 Posts: 5,308

  I always wondered why the relationship between Mario M and Selmer didn't last. Very few clues here but apparently it last shorter than I ever imagined, about 3 months. Writing this, I want to watch the video again because it seems too short. For something with so much historical significance. But reading another article about Mario M, sounds like he just didn't care for a steel string jazz guitar. That's not where his heart was.

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• Joonas EstoniaNew

  March 21 Posts: 9

  https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/120511#Comment_120511

  I only watched the second video about Django's guitar, but considering Maccaferri, his reputation is very contradictory, to say the least. In guitar world he is recognized as a genius inventor. Outside of that people laugh at him for making plastic violins.

  
• flaco ✭ Shelley Park #151, AJL Quiet and Portable

  March 21 Posts: 165

  https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/120519#Comment_120519

  And plastic clothespins!
• billyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E

  March 21 Posts: 1,569

  https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/120520#Comment_120520

  

  
  
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  March 21 Posts: 5,308

  
  

  https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/120520#Comment_120520

  Yeah, so foolish and silly of him.

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• Scoredog Santa Barbara, Ca✭✭✭✭

  March 21 edited March 21 Posts: 918

  I think I saw some of those old clothes pins and a plastic Mac floating by a pod of dolphins off Santa Barbara.

  

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• wim ChicagoModerator Barault #503 replica

  March 21 Posts: 1,572

  It seems like a few of the big ideas that Maccaferri did have were abandoned after all:

  • Resonator - not used much anymore and even many old Selmers had them removed due to problems
  • D hole (which exists because of the resonator) most people seem to prefer the oval holes..
  • Sealed/enclosed tuners - not worth the trouble and most modern builders don't bother
  • Plastic mac - belongs in the junkyard

  
  
• paulmcevoy75 Portland, MaineNew

  March 21 Posts: 389

  Mario is a very interesting guy. He was involved in a lot.

  He was very close with both John Monteleone and Jim D'addario. He must have lived nearby me when I was growing up on Long Island because those guys were very close to me.

  I think he made a shitload of plastic ukeleles. Certainly a smart guy.

  To me the most surprising thing about him was that he and his teacher were both virtuoso musicians and excellent luthiers. That's not super common.

  
• pdg ✭✭

  March 21 Posts: 523

  I met Mario in about 1977, at his factory in, I think, the Bronx. He said maybe he could make the internal resonators out of plastic (!).