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I think you’d have a tough time spending 3 million to build a single guitar in an existing shop.
The perceived value of a one-off Martin is due mostly to the fact that Martin has been around since 1833 under the same family doing the same sort of work for its entire history. And for a relatively brief period of time (the perfectly timed post WWII era when baby boomers discovered acoustic music and began to run the market for its paraphernalia) they were the best acoustic guitars available.
Hard to duplicate that in a new instrument. I’ll bet my SCGC sounds as good as or better than this $3millon museum piece.
🙂
Daniel
Matt and Tad,
I’ll be happy to send a few more if you think people will be interested in them.
All,
Update:
Since 6 August, our arrival in the village of Chamouille (pronounced sham-wee by the locals and sham-00-ee by southern French), the instruments have remained virtually unplayed. I’ve busted out the 5 stringers a couple times. The solid-body is good for riffing while the family is asleep. I have a Vox AC30 headphone amp, and I’m wondering how I lived without it all those years.I’m on a huge Heart binge. Digging around YouTube for anything that predates the big hair 80s era and postdates 2000. I am in love with Ann Wilson’s voice, but can’t abide that corporate metal they did for a while. There’s a version of Dog & Butterfly from 2002 out there that gives me chills.
And I taught myself (finally after 35 years) the main guitar riff in A minor from Crazy On You. That’s a lot of fun on a 5 string emando. I know you guys have probably all been there, done that, and forgotten it by now. But I seem to be reliving my teenage musical ambitions via the 5 string mandolin! Next thing you know, I’ll be doing a note for note copy of the solo from Comfortably Numb!
Hope all is well with all of you!
Daniel
Yeah. Saw that.
We’re in Stradivarius territory ladies and gents.
I have Mike Long’s History of Martin Guitars (the original version) with all the production stats. I wonder if it’s in there. Hmm.
Well, it’ll need to wait until I find that particular box of books.
🙂 Daniel
Will do.
My address is daniel.nestlerode@gmail.com. Shoot me an email.
I don’t know if Matt has any CDs at the moment. But ‘ll be happy to send him some and you as well.
Daniel
Hi Tad,
Beautiful instruments!
I just put a set of Rubners on a mandolin. I really like them.
Daniel
Thanks very much all.
Tad, if I weren’t a gigging musician I would not be on FB. A few people whose views I respect a great deal have gone off it completely. I’m going to resurrect the email list. Give me a shout if you want to be on it!
Zorro, That’s pretty cool. Good luck with the new build! (I think it should have the sign of Zorro on the 12th fret.)
Daniel
