to come to germany. got my license to work as a swimming instructor here to share knowledge teach children other dogs just want us to just dismiss. what's your story take part share it on info migron stuff. now this was one of its biggest fans dylan still is joan baez won't sing with anything else sting had his own personal motto made so did ed sheeran for david crosby the martin guitar is more than just a guitar when you get one it's magical to make sure to play for hours it's a it brings. you.

need a can from the german band about his margin is the perfect accompany meant money for me the ball pit stop and for my family says they can even tell from downstairs if i'm playing a margin or something else i just read. it's an icon of american music history. has a mystique about it and i think that that is rooted in all these decades now of some of the most important artists in so many genres of american for nakheel or music playing martin guitars jack and. jack adamle. oh i know you the very 1st moment i remember play a chord of this guitar and just thinking that this was the holy grail you know this was something to aspire to this market guitar.

the martin is highly respected by musicians and has long enjoyed legendary status for some it's the stradivarius of the guitar family the rolls royce of acoustic instruments its history is unparalleled in the history of guitar making an instrument that's starting in saxony conquered the music world. i think that martin guitars are special because they come from a remarkable tradition of fine instrument making so right from the start you know martin guitars were finely crafted the finest woods you know that kind of thing and i think that's part of what makes the of the month so special for more than

180 years martin guitars has been handbills by generations of the same family using carefully selected woods and applying their finally tuned craft to produce its understated elegance it was not him that gave the world the flat top acoustic guitar earlier guitars all had rounded bodies and a mistake about sound accompanies its sleek form. sometimes that form is molded by the musicians who play the sting had his martin built with eco friendly wood ed sheeran worked with martin to create his x. signature edition. and they sent me for gets to see if i like the sound of the. shape of them and. and i remember it turning up with

a dig the focus was on the treadmill now and i was all this this one's incredible i'm just going to take it i just know you. take me. around. most gun natick and also has his own personalized model the martin d $28.00 became his favorite guitar just a few years ago now he doesn't go anywhere without it it's ok it's meant to insure your movies and i had it in the studio with me for the last album in new orleans i wrote the title song from the album with that guitar like most songs since i got it . the story of the martin guitar they expect to the 19th century in the village of

mark no i kill him in saxony still come to strict that's war in january $796.00. martin was born into a family that had been in the woodworking business for generations it goes all the way back to my great great great grandfather who fortunately when he decided. to break away from his father's furniture business and dedicate his life to making guitars he chose to make very far in guitars. but the idea didn't come completely out of the blue mark no occasion was already a center of musical instrument manufacture even back then almost everyone in the village worked in the trade. it was a tradition which started in $1677.00 when 12 craftsmen got together to form germany's 1st guild of violin makers they were later joined by craftsmen building

almost every instrument played in a german orchestra. the i was going to go he me and exiles who'd been forced to leave bohemia on religious grounds who worked as instrument builders settled here bought the fixes stock board in the british cut since the state of saxony allowed them the opportunity to settle here as protestants and. was on the how distant we could go and of course you had the mountains we would and come back to conditions or buildings such instruments waterfalls it's unfair. that the craftsman of mark not ignored one instrument the guitar it would be christiane fleetly should not include one day make one of its instruments world famous but that came much later 1st the talented 15 year old was sent abroad to become an apprentice to the most famous master guitar maker of the time. he had any interest in the violin he went right from

furniture to guitar. so i don't think he just didn't it wasn't something that interested him the guitar by this point by you know the late seventy's early eighty's hundreds that had worked its way up into northern europe had become relatively refined and relatively standardized and it there was there must have been something about that thing in the guitar that intrigued him enough that he decided to stop working for his father and ultimately having to go to vienna because the violin makers at that time weren't interested in the guitar so they didn't even want to teach him they didn't know he probably know how to do it so then he went to vienna as a young man to learn to undergo on style for. tristan fleetness martin remained in the n.f.r. 14 years he met his wife there the daughter of an acclaimed cabinet maker and started a family eventually he decided to return to his native saxony to open a guitar building workshop under his own name. he came home and the violin makers

did not want we embrace it they saw him as competition they used the argument that when he worked for his father in germany he apprenticed as a cabinet maker and he has that certificate so if he wants to make furniture have that if he wants to make a taurus in germany he has to start in the beginning and go through that wall arduous apprenticeship. the violin makers were prepared to go to great lengths to keep out the competition by then demand was growing for the guitar even cabinet makers in the village had started building them and that was something the guild of violin makers wasn't prepared to accept $826.00 saw the start of what would become a legendary lawsuit. he's a solution to in my home a roué escalated between the violin makers and the guitar builders the cabinet

makers who wanted to build guitars and it ended up in court it would be awful for there was much negotiation and admittedly both sides had reasonable arguments as can you know these are off as is often the case with it all hinged on their businesses and maintaining their exclusive right to producing something while stomping others from getting a share of trial and. a legal dispute continued for years without any conclusion martin had hoped to manufacture and sell high quality instruments bearing his name . frustrated and like many germans decided to seek his fortune in the new world in 833 he left mocking my kitchen together with his wife and children and boarded a ship for new york martins planned to establish himself in america would be a challenge but also a huge opportunity he was to become the country's 1st guitar maker. and

martin believed america was ready for it he saw a market for his new instrument hoping it could soon be as popular as the banjo or the fiddle and he was right with a guitar experiencing its 1st heyday soon after the advantage the guitar the acoustic guitar a particular house it's portable and so here's a country of immigrants yes everyone came into a big city from europe a lot of people said no i don't want to live in these big cities i'm going west or north or south and initially you went by wagon. and you could find room for your conestoga wide and for a guitar much more easily than a piano and so then at night as you're go way west to ohio or somewhere like that and you build a fire you can pull out the guitar. with his guitar as soon gaining a name far beyond new york martins business quickly flourished. his instruments for

a prize winners at national exhibitions but martin never really felt completely at home in the cold and dirty new york. after visiting another german couple in nazareth pennsylvania he decided to settle there no coincidence with its gently rolling hills the region reminded him of home. the 1st time the only time i went to markers as we drive in what do i see the gentle rolling hills and then as the lithograph over there shows there's the town of market correction built into the side of these gentle rolling hills if you get in a helicopter and you back off of nazareth and you look down it's a town settled by german immigrants built into the side of rolling hills so they

came out here and they found people spoke german they cooked german food when it came to holidays like christmas they celebrated them in a very traditional german way. to answer. them. in nazareth my team expanded his business and turned from making individual instruments to serial production soon he had his own factory built to keep up with demand and he made crucial changes to his instruments up until then there had been one set back associated with classical guitars they were simply too quiet for large auditoriums in concerts they were drowned out by fiddles banjos and the piano so martin said about the placing of the traditional cut with steel strings and made the body of the guitar larger his changes completely revolutionized guitar building nobody had ever braced the guitar quite like that it was unique because it you know

met the needs of the new deal larger style guitar martin was the only company making the 2 are that size so they had to be inventive and come up with something that would stabilize the instrument as a result of the need to satisfy a demand in the market place their particular construction design and the artists that would end up using on it because the became a voice for you know more of the country folk and blues type of utilization. when he died in 873 the father of america's guitar making industry left his family a thriving business and at the turn of the 20th century his grandson frank henry martin went on to write guitar history he was the man behind the 1st 6 string guitar which was a large bodied instrument but still relatively light. it was the prototype of the

western guitar and frank henry martin called it the dreadnought in 1916 it went into serial production and soon became very popular the idea of calling it a dreadnought you know comes from one of the older martin's was a history buff and he was really taken with a a battleship that the british should developed. during world war one actually and i think mr martin loved the idea of this big powerful ship and the idea that that it was would crafted to him it seemed like the perfect name for his large body guitar. the dread not to put my 10 guitars on a path to worldwide success and the legendary dean model would become the chosen guitar for the world's most well known musicians. and then came the 1930 s. depression it could have spell the end for a company like martin but for

a stroke of luck. then you know you have the movie era when the great singing cowboys like gene autry came along and you know there's gene autry riding a horse astride a horse heroic character and his guy. a guitar in his hands and he's singing which is you know kind of crazy cowboy singing but for the movies it was a great thing and i think a lot of people sitting in that audience looking at someone like gene autry up on a big screen holding this gorgeous martin guitar it's to you things begin to click i want to play guitar i want to get me one of those guitars like the one the other

the gene autry played or the jimmy rogers play and i think that was the thing that kind of propelled the idea of the martin guitar being something a little special. and again the company began upping output with each and every guitar still being made by hand. the finest ones were used and some instruments were made with mother of pearl inlays. but it wasn't long before another boy event affected the company. the government came to us and they said so you know we have this war and we're going to need to take ask the majority of the men that you employ to go off and fight so we hired women didn't miss a beat and you saw i think today our shop we have many women guitar builders but for that period during the war the vast majority of the guitar builders were women

we did get out of the business of making archtop guitars because the government came to us and said. we're going to put you on allotments of strategic materials one of which is spruce because we need it for airplane wings and we said ok here are these are stock guitars that take a piece of spruce to speak to make one guitar top. if you take a piece of spruce stepping to make flat tops you can make 5 or 6. after the war production was slow to pick up but once more it fell to a musician to help revive the company's fortunes elvis presley. the king of rock n roll recorded the famous sound sessions with his favorite da teen and it d. 28. and he even had a special leather case made. my elvis

had his big pink cadillac when he finally started making money he went out and bought himself the top of the line finest so there was the core of the cadillac and there was the guitar the martin guitar that was the top of the line. so i now martin was the world's leading producer of acoustic guitars demand had grown so much that by the early 1960 s. there was a waiting list of up to 3 years due to limited capacity. martin guitars weren't the exclusive domain of the big stars anyone who played guitar wanted one. especially in the sixty's when so many rock and roll groups had a martin front and center an acoustic guitar alongside and it influenced so many young players and then of course a little later you get groups like crosby stills nash and young featuring beautiful

martin guitars these kinds of things really drove sales and really once that movement. was afoot i think the martin guitar of the dreadnought was really well established i mean the beatles played martin dread not you know and that makes a big difference that keeps things going. but singing in the dead. take the broken wings and learn to fly. johnny cash made an interesting comment we asked him one time we said you know mr cash can you give us a quote for our catalog and he said i feel safe with the part. why don't you come to us and says you've been out. there. for so long. willie nelson is

a great example of someone he has one martin guitar. and that's the only guitar you ever see him playing is his well martin guitar he said he said if my guitar stops working i'm going to retire and so far it's still working. great cock is one of america's most famous ego targets but when he plays acoustic he always picks up his martin especially in the recording studio. to me from the very 1st moments of playing guitar mark was like that in the call of what you aspired to have those of acoustic instrument in the reserves you know i go look at my record collection i'd see neil young with the 45 in front of that comes

the time record certainly all the growth stills of that stuff jimmy page joe walsh up to big joe walsh band. the list is that obviously what black berry goes on and on and on and i'm kind of the. sound of an acoustic instrument you heard a record like you know that's a mark within 2 seconds busy. it was the era of the singer songwriter and they all played a martin with their back to the land movement and a yearning for simplicity they spearheaded a trend to a more natural approach the martin guitar fit the bill perfectly handmade from wood without the technical bells and whistles. its popularity surged during the 1960 s. martin the 3rd delta bigger factory still making instruments by hand. in 1971 martin produced almost 23000 guitars annually all meeting the high quality standards set 140 years.

in 969 martin started making the 45 seconds they had no necessity for the work. and this is i thought when i want to. finish that one. and it sounded spectacular so i went again too long and they had a number of them down i picked the 3 best bottom protests. in the 1980 s. difficult times began for the martin company there was more competition than ever before with cheap products flooding the market martin remained true to its roots sticking to handmade manufacture and high quality materials and then there was

a new kid on the block this synthesizer when the disco creation again and people were tinkering with electric pianos that you could get to make all kinds of sounds. are definitely. in the 1990 s. martin developed its 1st backpackers model it was compact with fantastic sound and easy to carry perfect for street musicians like the up and coming young and sharon have a go oh it's going. to be all. or use the back pocket. forcing it to 16 and then i go. to the. one that looks like. it's a joke so that was that it was that my whole life was stuffed in that case that was

what travelling kit. today the martin company is america's oldest guitar producer and remains a family business in the 6th generation. in nazareth pennsylvania 500 employees still have guitars by hand for a company that's innovative guitar making and to come a hallmark of american tradition. i think americans should be very proud of martin not just stunning guitar company and they make today still the best guitars in the world that one should not use the word standard always has been. the martin guitar story well for ever be connected to the name of a german and it ran to healt from saxony christiane for inspiration martin the man who turned a small and fragile gut stringed instrument into what it's become today bigger and

louder more of us and more popular. there's nothing better than. just taking it out on the couch maybe not even thinking about it and just picking stuff whatever happens whatever comes out. it's very relaxing and comforting i sleep better at nights knowing that i have this guitar in my house. well. she's a put. this much more though this has come sometimes when i've got something else to do something that might be kind of annoying me i just pick up my guitar and play a bit and suddenly everything is ok it just feels like everything's right it feels good of course there's definitely something magical about it skied sure.

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