Master guitar builder and author Michael Collins is one of the few luthiers in North America to build reproductions of the Selmer and Maccaferri style guitar. These unique and soulful instruments were first noticed when used by the incomparable Django Reinhardt and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France (QHCF).

Michael builds the guitars in the traditional style as they were built in the Selmer factory in Paris in the 1930s and 40s, which yields a traditional voice and timbre. Generally, there are two types of gypsy Jazz Guitars. The Grande Bouche was Mario Maccaferri’s original concept, which housed a resonator behind the sound hole. When Django Reinhardt began playing with the QHCF, this was the guitar both he and the rhythm section used.