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Or is it harp guitar virtuoso?
During his entire decade or so of public performing, Maccaferri used a variety of harp guitars. I strongly suspect that his very first concert in Milan was on either a 9-course Mozzani dual arm instrument or his own 9-course instrument (shown above). In fact, of all the photos I have seen from his concert period, nearly all show him with a harp guitar. Only a couple of images - of which two are Selmer promotional photos, and one a program illustration – show him playing a 6-string. These instruments are shown and discussed in more detail in the companion feature"Electric Guitar." Maccaferri first played some of the instruments created by Mozzani (at least three different harp guitar models), then switched to his own harp guitars beginning in 1926 - again, using several different models or experimental instruments.
Frustratingly, in all the interviews with Maccaferri, if the subject comes up (which is maddeningly rare), he provides few details of these instruments. There is some additional confusion about a "7-string guitar" that, until recently, seemed an error. Dick Boak mentions in his 1992 article that Maccaferri designed and performed on a "harp guitar with seven playing strings on the neck and five bass strings for accompaniment." The closest candidate instrument is Maccaferri's own 11-course harp guitar with six strings on the neck in his 1928/1929 catalog - a model he has so far not been seen in photographs with. However, in 2008, I obtained an image of a one-of-a-kind Maccaferri harp guitar with, yes - seven strings on the neck. However, it only has 3 bass strings (the instrument is shown in the Maccaferri Harp Guitars feature). Maccaferri himself, in his 1976 Clinton interview, mentions a seven string - without reference to extra bass strings - as the guitar he used before settling on the 9-string. Although he later lets slip "mine were floating strings beyond seven," we don't know how many basses he was describing. In the context of the article, the quotes are quite confusing and thus unclear to what Maccaferri was even referring to, though he seemed to have been discussing all this within his Selmer period. Nonetheless, the 9-course (6+3) certainly appears to have been his preferred instrument, and on this he offers further, albeit again imprecise, comments. He begins with "...the extra three strings added a certain amount of harmony to the playing because of the sympathetic vibrations" (italics mine -GM). But he then describes how he had "a lot of music written for that stringing" - explaining how he played the Bach prelude in A minor, rather than D minor, "because of the three extra strings" (meaning he lowered it a fourth, as his 9-string went a fourth lower; thus, he played the strings).
Maccaferri also remembered the exact program for his first concert, rather boldly given in Milan three months after Segovia played the same hall! The pieces, which I suspect included "a lot of music written for that stringing," included the Sonata No. 22 in C by Sor, a few things by Coste, Mozzani, the Prelude, Gavotte, and Courante of Bach, Granados, pieces by Tarrega, and the last piece, Fantasia No. 3 by Mertz. Again, I am pretty thoroughly convinced that Maccaferri gave his concert debut on a 9-course harp guitar, and never looked back, playing a succession of new harp guitars of his own design throughout his several-year concert career.
Note: Like most Europeans, Maccaferri never referred to his instruments as "harp guitars." According to Monteleone, he referred to them as lyra-guitars (after Mozzani) or "guitars with bass strings." In his interviews, he just calls them "9-string guitars."
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Note: Like most Europeans, Maccaferri never referred to his instruments as "harp guitars." According to Monteleone, he referred to them as lyra-guitars (after Mozzani) or "guitars with bass strings." In his interviews, he just calls them "9-string guitars."
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