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in seventeen ninety-six. That is when company founder, Christian Frederick Martin, Senior, was born. He came from a family of furniture makers. But Christian left home as a teenager to study under a man who made guitars. When he completed his studies he returned to his hometown....
MARTIN GUITARS A Commitment to QualityFeatures guitar company C. F. Martin & Co. of Nazareth, Pennsylvania.Weaver, JimAntiques & Collecting Magazine
For a century and a half, Martin guitar company has been recognized as the best musical instrument company in the world. In the traditional family style management mode, Martin guitar reflects the exquisite craftsmanship of six generations of guitar production. Christian Fredrick Martin, founder of ...
Madame DeGhoni commissioned guitars with prototypical X bracing, a necessary precursor to steel strings, from both Martin and Schmidt & Maul. Steel strings first appeared on the Hawaiian guitars commissioned by the Southern California Music Company. The modern guitar shape is the result ...
Frank Henry Martin was very much hands-on in selling his company’s guitars and mandolins. The majority of the company’s output was personally sold to dealers in New York State and New England, while advertisements in local newspapers stimulated direct sales. Guitar production in 1920 totalled...
and by the end of the 1920s, steel would replace gut as the string of choice on the company’s guitars. The 2-17 was also important because it was the company’s lowest priced model. During the first years of the Great Depression, it represented about 15% of the company’s guitar ou...
Madame DeGhoni commissioned guitars with prototypical X bracing, a necessary precursor to steel strings, from both Martin and Schmidt & Maul. Steel strings first appeared on the Hawaiian guitars commissioned by the Southern California Music Company. The modern guitar shape is the result of the ...