Gordon Lightfoot's D 18

An Amazing Sounding, Beautiful and Timeless Acoustic Guitar http://hubpages.com/_2f6iz9aonqwpc/hub/The-Martin-D-18-Guitar The Martin D 18 is one of the most wonderful guitars that has ever been produced in America, or anywhere.  It's look is simplistic and beautiful because of it.  It's sound is highly prized, and marvelous. I've owned one, and I'll own another if I have my life the way that I think that it should be. Now, something for the dream list: Gordon Lightfoot is well known around the world as a singer and songwriter; perhaps the best known Canadian folk musician ever. Now sure, Gordon is often seen playing an old Gibson twelve string guitar, and that's all good, but he and his late guitarist, forget the name for...

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The Martin D !8

Mahogany - it doesn't sound anything like rosewood. I once saw a link online where a luthier was saying that tonewoods were a scam, and that he didn't think that anyone could hear the difference between mahogany and rosewood, so forth and so on. I'd never been so shocked in my life! I can not just hear the difference between mahogany and rosewood - I can hear the difference between East Indian Rosewood and Brazilian Rosewood.  It's inconceivable to me that a luthier ...someone who should be an audiophile of the highest order - can't hear the difference between mahogany and rosewood. I'm thinking that the man had spent too much time running saws and none of it with ear protection.  How could he claim to even know what...

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Russ Barenberg

Russ Barenberg I don't really know much about Russ Barenberg off hand, but I want to take a minute or several before I bust out big daddy Google and some old guitar magazines to find out and refresh myself on his subject - to tell you all about how my life has benefited from the music that this man has made in the past. No really - the music of Russ Barenberg has made a HUGE bit of difference in my life! Let me explain: I'd been such a shy youth that it was literally the monster in my life to be overcome. I'd arranged to perform in the school talent show my senior year, and up until the moment when the curtain was drawn and it was my turn to play on stage in front of the four or five hundred persons in the audience - I was...

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Steve Kaufman, Champion of Contests and Of Teaching Acoustic Guitar Flatpicking

Steve Kaufman Is a Fretboard Master. Simply put, Steve Kaufman is the all time king of contest guitar playing in the field of flatpicking acoustic guitar. On top of that, Steve Kaufman is, perhaps, the greatest flatpicking instructor in the United States of America. I've met Steve Kaufman, and he's a nice guy; but he's very busy. I've bought Steve Kaufman tutorial magazines and compact discs directly from Steve Kaufman, and I've even played one of his guitars. This is a man who, perhaps, knows and performs more traditional, public domain folk tunes on the acoustic guitar than any other man or woman living, and he does that at a higher level of skill than most anyone can even approach. Steve Kaufman. Master Flatpicker and Master Instructor. Source: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2BrL5_j0... Steve...

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