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Thread #85251   Message #1579064
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
08-Oct-05 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: Why are Martin Guitars so expensive?
Subject: RE: Why are Martin Guitars so expensive?
Kendall,

I'm glad you enjoy what I was doing. I appreciate it.

That particular CD had some tracks from the 1970s, some from the 1980's, and the last track, Jerry Rasmussen's "Handful Of Songs", was recorded at Bob Gibson's farewell party, in Sept. of 1996.

There were 3 different guitars (sort of) on the CD:

1) the D-76 as a 6-string guitar.
2) the D-76 as a 9-string guitar.   
3) a 000-18 (6-string) that I went to after I couldn't manage playing the dreadnaught any more---tuned quite loose and low. (By then I was trying anything to make fretting the instrument easier.)

Art