Ever since I got my new right knee I've been a bit more open to these kinds of innovations. 'Tis said that home is the place where, when ya gotta go there, they've got to take ya in. ---- I'm sure that a synthetic Martin is surely playable. I just know that there is nothing like coming home to a Martin after a hard day and feeling the vibrations of the real wood top and back of a fully matured and aged Martin guitar. Holding it in your own two hands hands when you hit the bass strings just right with your pick (thumb or flat)---- and HEARING those same vibes in the bare bones acoustic music you are making-------well, there never will be an electric pickup or a linolium body instrument that will ever compare.

Art Thieme