Category:French American Reeds Manufacturing Company

References[edit]

• History. French American Reeds, Inc.
  "​In 1935 Mario Maccaferri opened MASIM in Paris France. The company was established to manufacture reeds for clarinets and saxophones and quickly became an international success with distribution in the United States. / As fighting intensified during World War II, the Maccaferris and their infant daughter Eliane, departed Europe to establish a new business in America. / In 1939 the machines were shipped from Paris to New York and French American Reeds Manufacturing Company was born / In 2003 Eliane Maccaferri Reese moved the business to Jackson, Tennessee, where she continues to produce reeds and looks forward to new and exciting ways to market the Maccaferri reed. "
   See also: History-Long Form.
• Michael Wright (2000) "Maccaferri Guitars" in Guitar Stories: The Histories of Cool Guitars, Guitar Stories (Musical Instruments Series), 2, Hal Leonard Corporation, pp. 183-195?, 215-227 ISBN: 9781884883088.
• Tony Bacon (2012) "1953 - Maccaferri Introduces Plastic Guitars" in History of the American Guitar: 1833 to the Present Day, Backbeat Books, pp. 249–255 ISBN: 9781476856377.
  "​MACCAFERRI G40 / Produced: 1953-c1958 / This Example: c1955 / Body: 13 1/4" wide, 3 1/2" deep / Maccaferri's first plastic guitars were the flat-top G-30 ($29.25) and archtop G-40 ($39.95) of 1953, manufactured by his French American Reed company in New York. The neck was bolted to the body, and despite a plastic exterior had a central metal core that extended the length of the instrument: the "stay true neck" of Maccaferri's ads, which also boosted that the plastic guitars were "not affected by atmospheric conditions — will not crack or swell."”, “SELMER MACCAFERRI JAZZ / Produced: France, 1932-c1935 ... Django Reinhardt used a number of Selmer Maccaferri-style guitars in his career, including at fiest a D-hole model like this, and later oval-hole guitars (below). ... / SELMER JAZZ / Produced: France, c1934-1952 ... After Maccaferri left Selmer the company continued to make guitars of similar design but with a modified oval soundhole. ...”, “Mario Maccaferri was a talented guitarist and instrument designer, best known today for his Selmer-made guitars that were used to spectacularly by Django Reinhardt. ... "

Collections

• Checklist of Stringed Instruments by Mario Maccaferri. National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota.