JEROME DUFFELL

I began using saws and other tools since an early age around the house and in my dad's workshop and I've been playing guitar on and off since my early teens. When I was 17 I started to study classical guitar making at the London Guildhall University - London collage of furniture. Later I studied ethnomusicology degree at SOAS University London, then I went on to study steel string guitar making with master guitar maker Sergei de Jonge in Chelsea, Canada... I make steel string and classical guitars and other instruments, but I began to specialise in making Selmer Maccaferri style guitars after an increasingly large amount of commissions which led me to a deeper understanding of the nuances of these types of guitars used for playing gypsy jazz - jazz manouche.