A reproduction of the classic Selmer-Maccaferri-style jazz guitar Django played.

The Gitane D-500 Maccaferri-Style Jazz Guitar has a sound you have to hear to believe. All measurements and construction features were taken directly from a rare, original 1932 Selmer-Maccaferri guitar to create the most affordable, high-quality reproduction ever offered. The Gitane D-500 features a top of select solid spruce with rosewood back and sides and a thin, comfortable, bound mahogany neck with a 24-fret extension fingerboard of ebony with pearl-dot position markers.

The large D-shaped soundhole has concentric rings of multicolored wood purfling. The body is bound with solid ebony for durability and beauty with maple/walnut/maple purfling on all edges. The traditional Moustache bridge, also ebony, has a removable center section that is slotted for perfect intonation. Includes Gitane hardshell case.

Gitane D-500 Maccaferri-Style Jazz Guitar Features:

• Solid spruce top
• Rosewood back and sides
• Ebony fingerboard
• Multiple ebony/maple purfling on all edges
• Dovetail neck/body joint
• Slotted headstock with rosewood overlay
• Extended 24-fret fingerboard
• Mother-of-pearl dot-position markers
• 14:1 ratio geared nickel-plated tuning machines
• Adjustable truss rod
• Trapeze tailpiece
• Lustrous dark stain matte-finish
• Bone nut, zero fret
• 25-1/4" scale length

Gitane D-500 Maccaferri-Style Jazz Guitar Includes:

• Gitane hardshell case

This is a very distinctive guitar that plays beautifully. Affordably priced, too. Order today.

Gitane D-500 Maccaferri-Style Jazz Guitar

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phenomenal playing instrument...

Posted by Git from California on Apr 27, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Professional musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass and Rock

I don’t usually bother to contribute to reviews, but I do rely on them so I felt it only right that I add my opinion on this one. I was drawn to the Selmer Maccaferri style guitars early on, but to be honest I thought others might find them a bit too odd and gave me a hard time. After reading a lot of reviews I finally broke down and went and purchased a Gitane D-500 since it’s was both affordable and a phenomenal playing instrument. So to keep this simple, this is hands down my favorite axe, period end of discussion.

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This one's a keeper

Posted by geetar4J from Atlanta on Mar 5, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Classical, Jazz, Folk, Latin, Rock, Blues

The first thing that impressed me about this guitar is the volume. Whenever I let someone try it out, the first word out of their mouth after they pluck the strings is "Wow". I can get way more tone and volume out of this guitar playing finger style than I could out of any of my old dreadnaughts even with a pick. With the wide neck and string spacing, this guitar is really well suited to finger style, but it responds beautifully if you're playing with a pick as well. It's very well made and the finish job is excellent. The joint between the neck and the body (with the cutaway) is a thing of beauty. Drawbacks: The cheapness of the tuning pegs and the thinness of the metal tailpiece, but as long as they don't break, I can't complain too much. My only real complaint would be the hard case that it came with. This guitar is pretty small, and the case seems to have been made for a bigger guitar. A t-shirt stuffed at the bottom of the case takes up the extra space so it's not a big deal. Just don't expect a custom fit. Bottom line, if you ever plan on playing lead or fingerstyle on an acoustic, you need to try this guitar. I have not played anything that comes close in this price range.

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Old World Axe

Posted by My Other Guitar is a Telecaster from NYC on Feb 23, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 40 years' playing

Reviewer's Play Style: most

I've had this D-500 for about a week now, long enough to sing its general praises. The appointments are cheap and need replacement. Otherwise... what a pleasure! The body and soundboard are very light, leading to the sharp attack and slightly nasal tone everyone comments about. The fingerboard is roomy, and this -- combined with the low string loading -- seems to invite new chord formations. This would seem to be a side-effect of the guitar's pedigree. I doubt if Maccaferri had seen more than a handful of American products when he designed the guitar, so his solutions for the problems of volume, clarity, and playability are quite different from those arrived at for the depression-era Epiphones, Gibson's, and Martins. In playing, the fingers respond accordingly. Selmer only made about 1,000 of its various models. So now a pre-global musical cul-de-sac has been reopened and made accessible via globalization. It is a strange world. But if you feel the yen, go ahead and buy this thing. It's a fun little axe.

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Finally!!

Posted by s. carney from Sidney, Ohio on Jan 14, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 42 years Active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Christian, Celtic, Jazz, Rock

I have had this guitar for two months now and it is (for me) the Holy Grail! I love tone, the loudness and the expressive of the strings. You can bend and stretch this guitar beyond that of other acoustics. I use for blues, classical, gospel and jazz and it works. The easiest playing guitar. You need one of these.

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Holy Grail Guitar!!!

Posted by carney-bluesgrasse from Sidney, Ohio on Dec 4, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician for forty three years

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Christian, Celtic, Jazz, Rock

Finally! The guitar I have been looking for. All the Martins, Guilds, and various classical guitars were just a warm up to this guitar. For me this THE GUITAR. But then I started as a classical guitar player and then to steel strings and back to classical etc... I always wanted a guitar that was able to cover most fields of play and one that was expressive. At times you can make this thing sound almost like a violin. It came with the right silver wound gypsy strings. The action was dead on for me. I almost forget that I own other guitars. It will spoil you.

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