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Front detail of CF Martin’s very popular 000-28EC model, showing the solid Sitka spruce soundboard, finely inlaid herringbone rosette and their instantly recognizable, much-copied “comma-shaped” pickguard.

 
The C.F. Martin & Company is a US guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. Martin is renowned for its high-quality steel-string guitars, and is arguably the world’s preeminent mass manufacturer of flattop acoustics, with models that retail for thousands of dollars and vintage instruments that often fetch six figures at resale. The […]

 
Christian Frederick Martin, Sr. (German: Christian Friedrich Martin I.; January 31, 1796 – February 16, 1873) was a luthier who specialized in guitars.
Born in Markneukirchen, Germany to a family of cabinet makers, Martin became an apprentice of the guitar maker Johann Stauffer of Vienna, Austria.
As a result of a dispute between the Cabinet Makers Guild, […]

 
Six-string guitars
For many years, Martin has used a model-labeling system that consists of an initial letter or a number or series of zeros that specifies the body size and type (5 being the smallest and J being the largest - followed by a number that designates the guitar’s ornamentation and style, including the species of […]

  The EB-18 was the first electric bass the Martin company produced in 1979. Previously they had only produced acoustic bass guitars.
The general features of the EB-18 are:
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o Scale length 34″.
o Brass nut,
o Badass bridge,
o Single DiMarzio humbucking pickup,
o Through piece solid construction of hard maple and walnut (body wings are glued on to central […]