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chipl · May 2nd, 2007, 11:43 AM

I own 2, a 1970 D-18, mahognany sides and back, a great clear, bell like tone...the guitar does it all, it's strummer, it's good for fingerpicking, single lead lines...

I also own a 74 D28 which I love..great cannon like sound, nice boomy bass
great high end...again it does it all.

BUT my favorite Martin of all time is one I do not own. It's a 1968 D-28 a college friend of mine had back in the early 70s. It played like butter, had action so good it could practically play itself. Whether you were fingerpicking it, strumming it, or doing just about anything, it offered the least resistance of any acoustic I ever played. The sound was bell-like, in the best sense of the word. It just rang! Two other guys at college had a magnificent D-45 and, the other and beautiful D-41. But this D-28 just blew 'em away.

The stars and planets and the martin guitarmakers musta been in total alignment during the days that guitar was made.

I visited this friend several times when he lived Colorado in the 1980s and 90s and got to play it each time...and the thing had opened up/improved with age as we know vintage Martins often do...and it was like magic...a six string orchestra...I would swear I heard angels singing in the overtones and harmonics.

May 2nd, 2007, 11:43 AM	#57 (permalink)
chipl Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 809	My Favorite Martin I own 2, a 1970 D-18, mahognany sides and back, a great clear, bell like tone...the guitar does it all, it's strummer, it's good for fingerpicking, single lead lines... I also own a 74 D28 which I love..great cannon like sound, nice boomy bass great high end...again it does it all. BUT my favorite Martin of all time is one I do not own. It's a 1968 D-28 a college friend of mine had back in the early 70s. It played like butter, had action so good it could practically play itself. Whether you were fingerpicking it, strumming it, or doing just about anything, it offered the least resistance of any acoustic I ever played. The sound was bell-like, in the best sense of the word. It just rang! Two other guys at college had a magnificent D-45 and, the other and beautiful D-41. But this D-28 just blew 'em away. The stars and planets and the martin guitarmakers musta been in total alignment during the days that guitar was made. I visited this friend several times when he lived Colorado in the 1980s and 90s and got to play it each time...and the thing had opened up/improved with age as we know vintage Martins often do...and it was like magic...a six string orchestra...I would swear I heard angels singing in the overtones and harmonics.