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Article: Martin M-42 David Bromberg
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- Acoustic Guitar
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright String Letter Publishing Jan 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The renowned flattop makers honor a folk-blues legend with a signature model and deliver an exquisite and exceptionally well-balanced M body.
The M body shape is one of the few Martin body shapes that did not originate in the fabled Golden Age of Lutherie of the 1920s and '30s. Instead, it began life during the repair of a Martin F-9 archtop by Marc Silber of Fretted Instruments in New York's Greenwich Village in the early '60s. The guitar's top had been broken and replaced with a plywood top, so Silber, with advice from guitar guru Jon Lundberg, replaced it with a new spruce flattop ordered from Martin-creating a unique hybrid instrument. Soon after, Matt Umanov created a similar guitar ...