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i in salvage was one of its biggest fan. bob dylan still is joan diane, one thing with anything else, thing had his own personal model made. so did ed sharon for david crosby. the martin guitar is more than just a guitar. when you get one, this magical it makes you want to play for hours into it brings me need a can from the german down about his margin. it's a perfect accompaniment mine if i hope that my family says they can even tell from downstairs if i'm playing a margin or something else, screwed me. 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 and jack damage. i know you the very 1st time i remember playing a court in this guitar and just thinking that this was the holy grail, you know, this was something to aspire to. this mark and guitar. ah, martin is highly respected by musicians and has long enjoyed legendary status. for

some it's the strategy various our family, the rolls royce, of acoustic instruments. 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 finally 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 not him that gave the world the flat top

acoustic guitar. earlier guitars, all had rounded body and unmistakable sound accompanies it. fleet form. sometimes that form is moulded by the musicians who played the thing, had his martin built with eco friendly wood edge here and worked with martin to create his ex signature edition. ah, the free about us. and they sent me 4 guitars to see if i liked the sound of them or shape them. and there was a double i could tell. and i remember it turning off the gig and the vocals there and 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,

most ganita 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 school 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 it. and i just the story of the martin guitar, they spoke to the 19th century in the village of mac neu killed him in saxony for plant district. that's where in january 1796, christiane feverish 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 fine guitars. ah, but the idea didn't come completely out of the blue magnification was already a centre of musical instruments, 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 guild and violin maker. they were later joined by craftsmen building almost every instrument played in a german orchestra. excellent div low he, me an exile had been forced to leave bohemia on religious grounds, who worked his instrument builders settled here to start the 6 stock bought in the movers. cut since the state of sax. any allow them the opportunity to settle here

as protestant issue in either on the high disciplinary bill. and of course you have the mountains, wood, and climactic conditions or buildings such instrument budget involved that's only for the summit. and by that the craftsman of mark cash and ignored one instrument, the guitar. it would be christiane free. trish 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 violence. 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 seventy's, early 18, hundreds that had worked his way up into northern europe. had become relatively refined and relatively standardized. and it, it, there 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 alert under johan stuffer. ah christian fleet hush. 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 a guitar building workshop under his own name. he came home and the violin makers did not warmly embrace him. they saw him as competition, they use the argument that when he worked. ready for his father in germany, he apprenticed as a cabinet maker, and he has that certificate. so if he wants to make furniture have at 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 were prepared to go to great length 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. pieces hide sushi in my home, around escalated between the violin makers and the guitar builders and the cabinet makers who wanted to build guitars the cycle and it ended up in court will be $400.00. there was much negotiation by the side. and admittedly, both sides had reasonable arguments, people is kenya, or as is often the case of it all, hands on their businesses and maintaining their exclusive right to producing

something while stopping others from getting a share of tired out and coming. a legal dispute continued for years without any conclusion. martin had hoped to manufacturer and sell a 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 no occasion together with his wife and children at boarded a ship for new york. marcell 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 fidel. and he was right with a guitar experiencing its 1st heyday, soon after the advantage, the 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. with his guitar soon gaining a name far beyond new york, martin's business quickly flourished his instruments for prize winner that national exhibition. but marty never really felt completely get 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 the lithograph over their shows. there is the town of market church 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 turned from making individual

instruments to serial production. he had his own factory built to keep up with the demand, and he made crucial changes to his instrument. up until then, there had been one setback associated with classical guitar. they were simply too quiet for large auditoriums, in concerts. they were drowned out by fiddle banjo and the piano. so martin set 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 fixing guitar, which was a large bodied instrument, but still relatively light. it was the prototype of the western guitar and frank henry martin calls it the dread not. in 1916, it went into the serial production and soon became very popular. the idea of calling it a dread not, you know, come through one of the elder martin's was a history buff and.