A History of Martin Guitars Contents [show]Martin Guitars Boxed Set Starting with the early days in New York circa 1833, the fabled story of the Martin acoustic guitar comes to life in the long-awaited revision of the seminal Martin history book. Originally published in 1987, this new ...
The main distributors for Martin guitars, Zoebisch & Sons, were based in New York City at 46 Maiden Lane. The link between the companies would endure until 1898, when Martin took on its own distribution. The move to Nazareth had happened in 1839, Martin forsaking his store in favour of f...
A Martin isn’t just a guitar. It’s playable history; part of a long line of legendary instruments stretching back to the company’s beginnings in 1833. Our guitars were strummed by Civil War soldiers around campfires, helped shape the sound of modern music at the turn of the 20th centur...
Other books on Martin guitars refer to the existence of these documents but do not use them in a systematic fashion. Gura mines the archive for the American years of the founder of the guitar company's life, 1833 to 1873. There... RR Cullen - 《American Historical Review》 被引量: 0发...
German immigrant, Christian Fredrich Martin, began to develop an x-braced top for the guitars. This was because the steel strings being used in America created too much tension. The use of steel strings had also created a louder sound. Martin is known as the father of the American guitar....
The 1970s saw the growth of the “outlaw” music of prominent Nashville expatriatesWillie NelsonandWaylon Jennings. The gap between country and the mainstream of pop music continued to narrow in that decade and the next aselectric guitarsreplaced more traditional instruments and country music became...
which by late 1965 regularly culminated in Townshend smashing his guitar at the end of set-closing anthem “My Generation.” Smashing up the delicate Rickenbacker guitars Towshend was known for playing had become prohibitively expensive, however, and in a money-saving move he began switching to ...
While there are many variations on the neck length, shape, number of strings, and general build of electric guitars, most of them consist of the same elements: a body, usually made of wood or plaster, which comprises the bulk of the guitar and can be shaped in a variety of ways; a ...
“Latin guitar” – were names for the Italian cetra or cetera. In other words, what modern writers call the “Moorish guitar” and “Latin guitar” were not guitars, and the distinct instrument we refer to by the singular name, guitar, did not appear until near the end of the 15th...
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