The fact that it’s survived nearly 100 years of competition just goes to show how perfect this guitar is. I would also recommend looking at the Martin D-18 for a different approach to tone and ...

We made the first Martin D-45 for Gene Autry. He wrote in letters asking for a guitar with his name in the fingerboard. And we took some of the styles off of the mandolins we made in the early ...

A view of Martin Guitar’s D-3 Millionth Guitar. Only three of these guitars have been made. (Courtesy of C.F. Martin & Co.) The theme of “past, present, and future” is woven into every ...

Putting the swing in a crucial swing state, most of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley cast ballots for Barack Obama. Years later, it switched to Donald Trump and then reversed itself again to assist ...

Martin & Company ... and my first thought was I want to make a guitar that people can get into their hands. It would be easy to, ‘I want to make a D-45 with a big pearl pickguard’ or something ...

But don’t let this guitar’s small body size deceive you—its 24.9” scale length is just half an inch shorter than that of the D-28, Martin’s standard full-size dreadnought. This means ...

Sustainability has been a part of C.F. Martin & Co.’s business model for more than 100 years. It goes back to 1918, when the Nazareth-based manufacturer of handmade guitars made the decision to ...

A guitar which is said to have been owned by musician Tony Sheridan at the time he played and recorded with The Beatles has gone to auction. The 1959 Martin D-28E electro acoustic guitar will go ...