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Robin June Help Identify martin guitar - pix link added (30) RE: Help Identify martin guitar - pix link added 08 Jan 07


Yup, that's a beauty!

It also looks more like an 0-15 than the "0-15" I paid $1000 for this summer. (It's the first mahogany guitar I ever chose. It knocked for a loop those of my friends who know about my rosewood addiction.)

When we got it home and pulled out my copy of Walter Carter's "The Martin Book: a complete history of Martin guitars," it worked out to be a 1928 2-17, the first model that Martin ever made to be capable of wearing steel strings and not folding into a sandwich. The model number's confusion came from the fact that the neckblock only had the serial number, which meant it was from prior to October 1930. And yeah, My husband and I both said, "2-17? That's a mandolin's model!"

I don't really have the equipment to take digital photos (the cash & credit get spent on guitars instead!) but mine looks like the 0-15 except it has a slotted headstock, no pickguard, a slightly narrower lower bout and a slightly-more-narrower upper one. And yeah, the tone is LOUD! especially after I put fresh Martin SP extra-lights on it.




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