"When You Wish Upon a Star" | Martin 000-18 (1943) | The Music Emporium

This 1943 Martin 000-18 is currently the envy of everyone on staff at TME. It is gorgeously full-sounding and incredibly powerful for a small-bodied guitar, with the coveted immediacy of response demanded by vintage guitar purists. Each note that rings out of this guitar seems at once warm, clear, and buttery soft. It's a fingerstyle player's dream guitar for its recording voice; but playing it with a flatpick is an addictive experience. Given its ultra-light construction and ebony neck rod, it has astonishing low-end thump and the fat, pillowy projection associated with these 'wartime' guitars when dug into with a plectrum. This guitar has been played a lot in its life, and its supreme degree of openness is undoubtedly linked to that fact (it was most recently owned by friend of TME and mandolinist extraordinaire, Joe K. Walsh). If you've been on the lookout for a wartime 000, we can't remember such a guitar impressing us more than this one.
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The lovely playing is by TME's own Andrew Stern. Follow him online here: andrewstern.us/