I have a D-28 I've rarely played for the last few years. Most of what I play nowadays is fingerpicked and I have other guitars that are much better suited to the style. But, when we decided a few months ago to cobble our disbanded band back together for a festival gig, I auditioned several of my guitars and the the D-28 clearly had the best sound for the job at hand.

I believe there are better all-round guitars, and if I had to have only one guitar it definitely would not be a Martin D. But for rhythm work in any type of string band, they're hard to beat.