bring you more, the how do we make cities, or how can we protect habitat? what's into with them all our ways. we can make a difference by choosing smartness solutions over same set in our ways. the local id, mental series in 2000 on d, w, and online ah me now this was one of the biggest fans, bob dylan still is. joan baez won't sing with anything else. thing had his own personal model made. so did at sharon for david crosby. the martin guitar is more than just a guitar when you get one, this magical makes you want to play for hours insert. it brings

me for a voice call need a can from the german down about his martin is the perfect accompaniment mine. if i hope to stay with my family says they can even tell from downstairs if i'm playing a martin or something else, ah, ah, 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 nack, your music playing martin guitars, jack jack damage. i know you the

told me i remember playing a cord on this guitar and just thinking that this was the holy grail, you know, this was something to aspire to this mark and guitar. ah, ah, ah, ah, martin is highly respected by musicians and has long enjoyed legendary status for some it's the strategy various of the guitar family, the rolls royce, of acoustic instrument, its history is unparalleled in the history of guitar making an instrument that starting in saxony, conquered the music world, ah, 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 instrument so special for more than 180 years. martin guitars have been hand built by generations of the same family using carefully selected woods and applying their finally to craft to produce as understated elegance. it was martin that gave the world the flat top acoustic guitar. earlier guitars all had rounded bodies, an unmistakable sound company that sleek form. sometimes that form is moulded by the musician could play the thing had his martin built with eco friendly wood. ed sharon worked with martin to create his ex signature edition ah, the pri best. and they sent me for guitar to see if i liked

the sound of them or shape them. and it was just double i could tell. and i remember it turning off at a gig and the focus was there and i tried them all now and all this, this one's incredible. i'm just going to take it just so you. yeah. yeah. i mean, to me, right out of the most can need it can also has his own personalized model. the martin, the 28th, became his favorite guitar just a few years ago. now he doesn't go anywhere without it gets me to the studio 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 song since i got inside the hub. the story of the martin guitar date to the 19th century and the village of mac neu killed him in saxony for pan district. that's where in january 1796 castiano fleet. martin was born into a family that had been in the wood working 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 fine guitars. ah, but the idea didn't come completely out of the blue magnification was already a centre of musical instrument manufactor. even back then, almost everyone in the village worked in the trade. it was a tradition which started in $1677.00 when 12 craft men got together to form

germany's 1st gills and violin maker. and they were later joined by craftsmen building almost every instrument played in a german orchestra. exit. i'm going to kill him in exile. so been forced to leave bohemia on religious grounds, who worked as instrument builders, settled here to start the 6th stock bought in the british cut since the state of saxony allow them the opportunity to settle here as protestant issue and is on the high distant risk of bill and of course you have the mountains, wood, and connected condition that are building such instrument was involved at some info from it. and by that's a craftsman of mock. no occasion ignored one instrument, the guitar. it would be christy, unfree martin would one day make one of its instruments, world famous. but that came much later. first, 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 violet. he went right from furniture to guitar. so i don't think he just, it didn't. it wasn't something that interested him, the guitar, by this point, by the late 17, early 18. hundreds that had worked its way up into northern europe. had become relatively refined and relatively standardized. and it, it was, there must have been something about that thing. 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 really probably know how to do it. so then he went to vienna as a young man and learn under johan staffer christiane fried. his martin remained in vienna for 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 it to tar building workshop. under his own name, he came home and the violin makers did not warmly embrace and they saw him as competition. they use 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, how about it? if he wants to make the tours in germany, he has to start in the beginning and go through that long arduous apprenticeship. the violin makers more 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 deal. the violin makers wasn't prepared to accept 826. so the start of what would become a legendary lawsuit. piece of hide sushi in my home,

around escalated between the violin makers and the guitar builders and the cabinet makers who wanted to build guitars and then ended up in court with a b, r for 400. there was much negotiation by the side. and admittedly, both sides had reasonable argument, the ball is kenya is, or as is often the case shift it all hands on their businesses and maintaining their exclusive right to producing something while stopping others from getting a share of tight alden to come. and a legal dispute continued for years without any conclusion. martin had hope to manufacturer and sell the high quality instruments, bearing his name frustrated, and like many german decided to seek his fortune in the new world. in 1833, he left mark in the kitchen together with his wife and children, had forwarded a ship for new york marcy and 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 margin 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 and he was right with the guitar experiencing its 1st a day soon after the advantage to guitar. the acoustic guitar, a particular has its 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 wagon for a guitar much more easily than a piano. and so then at night, as you're going west to ohio or somewhere like that, and you build a fire,

you could pull out the guitar, ah, with this guitar as soon gaining a name far beyond new york, martin's business quickly flourished. his instruments for prize winner is a national exhibition, but marty 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 market kitchen. as we drive in, what do i see? gentle rolling hills. and then as the lithograph over their shows, there is the town of market coach and built into the side of these gentle rolling hills. if you get in a helicopter and you back off of lazarus 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. in nazareth martin expanded his business and turn 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 instrument. up until then, there had been one set back of those heated with classical guitar. they were simply too quiet for large auditoriums, in concerts. they were drowned out by fiddles, banjos, and the piano. so martin said about replacing the traditional with steel strings and made the body of the guitar larger. his changes completely revolutionized

guitar building. nobody had ever braced guitar quite like that. it was unique because it met the needs of the nude, larger style guitar. martin was the only company making your char 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 marketplace, their particular construction design and the artists that would end up using and they'd be kind of became a voice for, you know, more of the country folk and blues type of utilization. when he died in 1873, the father of america 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 body of instruments, but still relatively light. it was the prototype of the western guitar. and frank henry martin called it the dread not in 1916, it went into serial production and soon became very popular. the idea of calling it a dread not, you know, come through 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 gets, are the dread not put my 10 guitars on a path to worldwide success. and the legendary d model would become

a chosen guitar for the world's most well known musician. then came the $900.00 thirties depression, it could have spelled the end for a company like martin, but for a stroke of luck. i 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 stride, a horse heroic character guitar in his hand. and he's singing, which is, you know, kinda crazy cowboys 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 is still things begin to click. i

want to play guitar. i want to get me one of those guitars like the one the only gene archery played or the jimmy rogers played. and i think that was the thing that kind of propelled the idea of the martin guitar being something a little special. i me and again the company began upping output with each and every guitar still being made by hand. the finest woods were used and some instruments were made with mother of pearl inlaid but it wasn't long before another world event affected the company. the government came to us and they said, so you know, we have this more and we're going to need to take asked the majority of the men that you employ to go off and fight. so we hired women didn't

miss a beat and you, so i think today in our shop we have many women to talk about this. but for that period, during the war, the vast majority of our buildings were women. we did get out of the business of making arch top guitars because the government came to us and said, we're going to put you on a lots of strategic materials. one of which is spruce, because we need it for airplane wings. and we said ok, here are, these are the top guitars that take a piece of spruce this big to make one guitar top. if you take a piece of bruce that big 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 and roll, recorded the famous fam sessions with his favorite de 18. and the $28.00 even had

a special leather case made 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 court or the cadillac, and there was the get are the martin guitar, that was the top of the line. by now, martin was the world's leading producer of acoustic guitars. demand had grown so much thought by the early 1900 sixty'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 and acoustic guitar along side and it in fluid so many

young players. and then of course, a little later you, you get groups like crosby, stills, nash, and young featuring beautiful martin guitars. these kinds of things really drove sales and really wants that movement was afoot. i think the martin guitar, the dreadnought, was really well established. i mean, the beatles played martin dread notch, you know, and that makes a big difference. that keeps things going me in i take these broken wings and learn to johnny cash made an interesting comment. we asked him one time, we said, you know, mister cash, can you give us a quote for our catalog? and he said, i feel safe with a martin this for me. why don't you come to

you since you've been out for so long now. really nelson great example of someone. he has one martin guitar and that's the only guitar you ever see him playing is his one martin guitar and he said, he said if my guitar stops working, i'm going to retire. and so far is still working in ah, greg cock is one of america's most famous eager taurus. but when he plays acoustic, he always takes up his martin, especially in the recording studio in to me from the very 1st moment of playing guitar. mark was like the pinnacle of what you aspired to have as an acoustic instrument. and the reason is, you know,

i go home and look at my record collection. i see neil young with a d. 45 in front of that comes a time record. certainly all the crosby, stills, and nash stuff, jimmy page. joe walsh, big joe walsh fan and the, the list is obviously, you know, public or blackberry that goes on and on and on, and kind of be the indicative sound of an acoustic instrument that you heard. i record just like, you know, that's a martin within 2 seconds. it was the era of a singer songwriter and they all played a mart with their back to the land movement under yearning for simplicity. they spearheaded a trend to a more natural approach. the martin guitar fit the bill perfectly. hand made from wood without the technical bells and whistles its popularity surged during the 1900 sixty's march. the 3rd built a bigger factory still making instruments by hand. in 1971.

martin produced almost 23000 guitars annually on meeting the high quality standards set 140 years earlier in the 69, martin started making d 45. again. they hadn't done this before the war. and soon as i saw when i wanted to finish that one and and it sounded spectacular. so i went again to lumber and they had a number of them. and i picked the 3 best bottom in, ah, in the 1980 difficult times again for the martin company. there was more competition than ever before with cheap product flooding the market. martin remain

true to with roots sticking to hand made, manufacture and high quality materials. and then there was a new kid on the block. the synthesizer when the disco phrase shed in and people were tinkering with electric pianos that you could get to make all kinds of sounds like acoustic guitar, 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 ed sharon ever go. oh ed agree. maybe all the way or use the back pocket for from fixing. and then i go

on the one that looks like it said that it was that it was that my whole life was stuffed in that case. that was my traveling kit. ah, today the martin company is america's oldest guitar producer and remains a family business in the generation the in the risk pennsylvania, 500 employees still bills guitars by hand for a company that innovated guitar making and become a hallmark of american tradition. i think america should be very proud of martin martin guitar company and they make today still the best guitar in the world. them one to mark the world standard for which has been a martin guitar story, will forever be connected to the name of its german immigrant who held from saxony,

christiane, put english martin, the man who turned a small and fragile, got stringed instrument into what it's to come today, bigger, louder, more robust and more popular. ah, there's nothing better than just taking it out, sitting 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 night knowing that i have this guitar in my house. oh in. well, she's pretty. she was ash this much was all that this was guns on times when i've got something else to do something that might be kind of annoying me. i just pick up my guitar in lab and

suddenly everything is okay. it just feels like everything's right off. it feels good. i've called there's definitely something magical about it. skied, sean mcgee duff on all is ah, in the news. the news news. news, news,

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