The Martin D-28, An American Acoustic Guitar Icon-and It's Many Fine Imitations

There are some that say that the Gibson J 200 is the world's best known guitar. I don't think so, I think that the Martin D 28 is the world's best known, and most sought after guitar. The D 28 is the standard setting instrument in steel string acoustics, and it always has been - and continues to be. There are now so many companies making so many variations on the classic D 28 design that it boggles the mind. Martin itself makes many varieties of the D 28, and all of them are wonderful guitars. The Standard for Acoustic Guitars and Flatpickers, The D 28 by C.F. Martin & Co. From the time I was twelve years old up until the time that I was a senior in high school, in Kaufman, Texas-I played the acoustic, and sometimes the...

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The Beautiful Martin D-180

Marking the one hundred and eightieth anniversary of C.F. Martin guitars in the USA, the D-180 is a stunningly beautiful guitar. The Martin D-180 Commemorating the 180th anniversary of CF Martin & Co. The Martin D-180 Head Stock The Martin D-180 and the Most Beautiful Rosette I've ever seen. That rosette is amazingly gorgeous! The Martin D-180, A Guitar To Lust After To commemorate the one hundred and eightieth anniversary of their existence, C.F. Martin & Company created one of the single most beautiful acoustic guitars ever seen. This guitar is stunning in every way, visually, tonally, and historically. It's a celebration...

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The Gibson F5 Mandolin

Besides making world class acoustic and electric guitars - Gibson also makes what is easily the world's most loved, desired, and most easily recognized mandolin, the Gibson F5. The Gibson F5 Mandolin I've been a huge acoustic and electric guitar music fan my entire life. Primarily I've always played acoustic guitars - but spent a lot of time listening to all kinds of guitar music. But the guitar is only one of the stringed instruments out there - and it's not always been the stringed instrument that has got or deserved the most attention. The violin, or fiddle is that instrument, but the guitar has a bit of a cousin, or maybe "step cousin," that is a closer relative to the violin than anything else, and that is the mandolin....

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The Gibson J 200 Guitar and The Gibson SJ 250 Monarch

When it comes to high end, very expensive, and beautiful steel string acoustic guitars - people most often think of Martin guitars, or Gibson guitars. Now, there are many, many other guitar manufacturers making beautiful steel string guitars, but surely Martin and Gibson are the best known. When it comes to flatpicking steel string acoustic guitars, however, nobody beats Martin - but then again Gibson has it's massive, beautiful, and loud J 200, and it's even more expensive and beautiful sibling the J-250 Monarch. The Gibson J 200 Jimmy Page, Elvis, and John Lennon all Played the Gibson J 200. Jimmy Page used a J-200 for a lot of the acoustic guitar on the first Led Zeppelin...

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Django Reinhardt, The Gypsy Jazz Guitar Legend

Django Reinhardt is possibly the single most influential guitarist in the history of the instrument. Before Django it was VERY seldom that the guitar was every played as a lead instrument at all, and Django's style was technically astounding, even were he have had full use of his left hand, which he didn't. Django Reinhardt Long before people like Doc Watson and Clarence White brought the guitar to the fore as a lead instrument in the minds of American musicians , there was Django Reinhardt. Django Reinhardt many years before the folk revival had proven to the world what an incredible voice the six string acoustic box had, and he'd already revolutionized the guitar as a lead instrument in the world of jazz. Not only that, he...

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Willie Nelson and his Martin guitar, Trigger

The great Willie Nelson and his famous, well worn Martin guitar Source Willie Hugh Nelson is an American icon who needs no introduction. We'll introduce him here just the same. Here in Texas where I've nearly always lived, Willie doesn't even need his surname used. If you start talking about 'Willie,' everyone will know who you are talking about. The man is a real artist, and like are true artists, he is a nonconformist, and a rebel by nature. He says what he means, and does whatever he thinks is best, laws be damned. The world needs a lot more persons like Willie Hugh Nelson; and a lot less of the types who say what they think everyone wants to hear, and forever dances to the government's official...

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Taylor Acoustic Guitars

Taylor Guitars - A Unique and Very High Quality American Guitar Manufacturer. Taylor Guitars, the only real threat to Martin Dominance. The only real threat to the dominance of the legendary C.F. Martin & Co. guitar company in the United States, and in fact, the entire world, is the Taylor Guitar Company of California. If you were to go to either Merle Fest, in North Carolina, or The Walnut Valley Festival, in Winfield, Kansas - and view the amazing acoustic guitar competitions there, then the only other guitar manufacturer there, as displayed by the contestants, that poses a threat to the eminence and prestige of the Martin Guitar Company is the Taylor Guitar Company. Oh, the Henderson Guitars ...

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Johnny Cash and His Martin D-42JC Guitar

Johnny Cash with his Martin D-42JC Source Johnny Cash and His Martin Acoustic Guitars I once read an interview in an acoustic Guitar magazine where the humble yet legendary Johnny Cash told the interviewer it was very kind of him to consider him a guitarist. Some men are humble, some men are Kanye West. Johnny Cash is famous for always having a guitar in hand, and playing it too. He wasn't posing with the thing like a modern country music pop star. He was strumming the chords, but his voice, his persona, his awesomeness were the thing. He played the guitar though, and that's what mattered. Johnny Cash was obviously a wealthy man, but he was not an extravagant man, he was not a proud man, and he wasn't...

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Yamaha Acoustic Guitars

Yamaha acoustic guitars range from beginners level all the way up to guitars that the best of the best would love to play. I've had my hands on more Yamaha guitars than I'll ever remember, and I would recommend the brand to anyone. Here's some details about the three main lines of Yamaha acoustic guitars. A Beautiful Yamaha Acoustic Guitar With A Sunburst Finish. Source Yamaha Acoustic Guitars Growing up I spent many a Saturday early morning riding with my late Grandfather, A.T. Coker, to various and sundry local flea markets or trade days in order to peruse the boothes of vendors and find that super duper deal. Very often what the goal of these journeys was - was to find a nice machine shop...

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