Martin

The GPCPA1 Plus acoustic-electric cutaway model has solid East Indian rosewood back and sides. This instrument integrates state-of-the art electronics with striking aesthetic features, player comfort and enhanced bass.  The Martin List Price is $3999

We present, for your approval, a modestly appointed Martin Custom 00-21 that’s just a tiny bit strange as a 00-21 is thought to be 14 1/8” in body width on the 12-fret, and this is just 14”. However the top bout is supposed to be 9 ¾” and that it is.  At the waist it is 8 ¼”.  It is a short-scale guitar, being 24.9” nut to saddle; it has a 1 ¾” nut width and a 2 ¼” bridge spacing.  It has a lower side depth of 4 1/16th”.   We feel it may be a 00 that skips lunch every day and has a sensible dinner of salad and farfel.

Our Discount Price is $3,350.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $3,250.00.

The Martin Style 00-21 Grand Concert sized guitar goes way back.  C F Martin was already making them in 1898 when they began serial numbering instruments; we know that they also made the model prior to that.  C F Martin Company produced only 24 in 1942 (it was a wartime year and few guitars were sold) and yet it was one of the finest years for beauty, tone, projection, volume and accessibility of the finest tonewoods.

This is a Grand Concert sized Martin guitar; it fits the same size case as does a classical guitar, but of course we will set it up for light gauge steel strings.   This example is in exceptional condition, not played very much and crack-free. Its top has mellowed to a deep and uniform orange; the headplate, fingerboard and bridge are all Brazilian rosewood.  It plays with great ease and is pleasing in many ways one never typically things of.  It can be your own personal philharmonic – lap sized yet strong and lyrical in performance.

One of our favorite small-bodies, this extremely wonderful sounding, yet smaller sized, instrument is part of the Martin Vintage series which means it has many appointments of the prewar, while retaining the solid Sitka spruce top of the modern era. It is made using bona fide, solid mahogany on the back & sides, and it has 1/4" scalloped braces, a modified V-neck, a bone nut and saddle

This stunning instrument has been brought back to entirely original specification by the factory that made it.  This guitar provides the experience of walking into a store in 1968 and seeing a brand new D-28 hanging up, pointing to it, and saying "I'll take that one."     This is an ideal guitar – displaying one of the most beautiful examples of straight-grained, quarter sawn Brazilian as we have recently laid our eyes upon.   This is made from wood of a level of quality it is doubtful could even be obtained today on any new guitar.  This is Now on Sale.  It WAS $8763 but is now available for less.

The GPC12PA4 is the first twelve string in the popular Performing Artist Series. This model features a 14-fret cutaway with fast and comfortable High Performance necks, and Fishman's F1 Analog electronics. Perfect for any performing artist.   The Martin List Price is $1849

This type of Martin guitar has already achieved the status of “legendary” in our showroom.   Its top has a perfectly parallel vertical grain pattern that consistently runs around 3mm apart.  That’s quite wide, and, in our opinion, likely to make the guitar sound rich, sonorous and rumble-ishous.  The Brazilian shows some swirl on the extremes of the back, but the sides are mostly straight-grain.

Our Discount Price is $7,211 and Our Cash Discount Price is $6,995, however a highly astute individual with foresight and discernment has placed a $100 “Right of First Refusal” deposit on it and so it cannot be ordered.

Our Discount Price is $10,305 or $9,995 at the Cash Discount Price.  This guitar is being sent back to Martin for some repair work and won't be ready for at least 4 months (around July or August).   If you would like to reserve this guitar with a $100 'Right of First of First Refusal', please inquire below.  

It has many times been written that there is little difference between a Martin 1947 D-28 (except for the first month or two in which a 1947 could have had herringbone top trim) and, say, a 1962 D-28. We can think of a few changes – the jigs and fixtures by the 1960s were beginning to wear and the most notable result of this is that the headstock edges got more and more curved (rounded). Prewar and wartime Martin guitars have the famous “squared” headstock that so many of us yearn to fondle between our fingers.

A bass for the performing artist. The BCPA4 features a sapele back and sides and a solid spruce top, a J-style cutaway body, and Fishman F1 Analog Electronics for deep, rich tone plugged-in or unplugged. A perfect marriage of upright and electric tone.  Martin List Price: $1,999

Martin Company writes:  “Built in accordance with our responsible guitar building practices, the OMC Cherry acoustic-electric sustainable wood model provides a combination of great tone and attractive appointments at an extremely good value. Featuring a three-piece solid cherry back with a maple center wedge back in a full gloss finish, the majority of wood used in this instrument utilized originated in forests managed in an ecologically responsible manner.”

Early style 17 Martin models used spruce tops, Like 15M with a Spruce shaded gloss-top, Back/sides will be Mahogany, 1 Style non-scalloped braces, Tortoise color top binding, Mahogany neck, Morado fgbd/bridge, Fgbd. Inlay short pattern diamond & squares.  The Martin List Price is $1999

In the title of this model, D-16RGT, the D means Dreadnought, the 16 means mortise-and-tenon construction in all solid woods, the R means East Indian Rosewood back & sides, the GT means Gloss Sitka Spruce top.  Other accoutrements include a  modified low oval neck shape, a 1-11/16" nut width, a 25.4" scale length and a #345 hard shell case.

The Martin Style 2 is relatively modest in appointment having a two-ply top purfling, three ply soundhole rosette, and yellowed ivoroid top and back binding.  The body is all mahogany, so is the back of the neck; the fingerboard and bridge are rosewood.

This guitar is being sent back to Martin for some warranty repairs and won't be available for a few months (at least) and is already reserved by a person who has left a deposit on it.  If you would like 2nd dibs if person #1 passes, please inquire below.  

Our Discount Price is $2,835.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $2,750.00.