How does a $500k guitar sound?
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I think there is another reason why the old ones tend to be nicer: the crap ones were thrown out long ago. People hold on to the great ones, take care of them, and them pass them on to someone worthy (or rich) when they are done with it.
Survivor's bias definitely makes sense for this stuff yeah.
Of course. 😆
True. I had a 1970 D28 that wasn’t very good. Too dark sounding for me. I traded it for a nice classical.
I have heard a few pre war Martin's that sounded pretty meh, so they do pop up. But you're still definitely right. Honestly, the guitars Martin have been making the last few years sound incredible, I have a 2022 OM-28 that sounds pretty close to some of the pre wars I think!
Rich people have nothing to tell
I like that Martin allows select people to come in and play those guitars. They were meant for more than just being museum exhibits.
Just not tarantino
I'm not sure if they still do, but they let me play this guitar when I went to the factory tour about 12 years ago! Was definitely nerve wracking!
I love the Billy in the low ground in the beginning
I just learned this song! Fun to jam on and great for picking up that flat picking speed!
I’m lucky enough to already own my personal “The One” vintage acoustic, a 1930 Gibson L-1. My great-grandmother’s parents bought it for her, new, for her twentysomethingth birthday. God alone knows how they afforded it; they were dirt poor in the hills and hollers of Appalachia. It’s in quite rough condition after years of hard use and poor storage by her children and grandchildren before it got to me, and has had to have several cracks and loose braces repaired, but it’s both a family heirloom and one of the best-sounding acoustic guitars I’ve ever been lucky enough to play.
Best guitar ive ever heard and felt was a carbon fiber guitar. The body and everything was carbon fiber. There were two there. The other one sounded good but the one sounded and produced tone that was or has been unmatched by any ive heard. Good story on the Martin. Congratulations on your access to that masterpiece.
Those Carbon fiber guitars are so cool! I played one on an album of mine because I needed to tune an acoustic guitar down to C and the carbon fiber was the only one that still sounded great like that.
They really are so cool and have a unique sound.
Love your videos Sammy G! I'm not a guitar player. I'm a 61 y/o learning ukulele and I'm having a great time.
Thanks Man from Granby Québec!
An old Martin? You could have acted out the scene from Hateful Eight.
He should have just straight on gone for it
Ugh! Too soon! 😱
Only once.
YOLO SWAGGINS
Best guitars on Earth!
I have had the opportunity to play some pre-War Martins, and I know what you mean about the resonance. Talking, humming, any sound near it reverberates through the wood, producing such phenomenal tactile feedback. A proper guitar just comes alive with the vibration.
Wow.. right in the first few strums i could hear that this sounds perfect..
Something about a dreadnought guitar is just so cool, especially that stunning binding.
I hope you liked pa, basically my stomping grounds. Buts what's insane is I've never been to Martin. Need to take a trip
I have owned dozens and played hundreds of different guitars in the last 48 years, and I can honestly say that my low level Taylor 214 CE SB-S DLX is in the top 5% which for the price is amazing. I took the time to play about a dozen of them, 214s, until I found one that sounded better than most of or about equal to the "higher end" Taylor's they had in stock and I run the stock 52-11's it was setup for. I am still blown away every time I pick it up that it only cost $1350 when I got it a few years ago. Yes, I could get something marginally better but only for a considerable price jump. It's probably the best bang for the buck.
My other favorite is a 50th anniversary Squier Strat I got from the neighbor for $40. I just set up the neck, intonation and adjusted the pickups and it has a ridiculously good sound for a $150 guitar, even used it on some studio recordings recently.
Great guitars don't have to be expensive.
That's a gorgeous guitar. I'm rather attached to my McPherson acoustic.
Before Mike Longworth was ousted from Martin by CFM iV, we had a conversations about "pre war Martin Guitars".
I vowed to keep silent, and I will in his memory.
One of my favorite acoustics I ever played was an 80s yamaha with 10gauge electric strings. I have a CFMartin and that's the best one I have, it's so rich and full😊
That is an absolutely gorgeous instrument. There’s a part of me that hopes Martin never sells this and just lets certain individuals come and play it occasionally from now on. It shouldn’t be owned; it should be shared.
Very nice Billy in the lowground
The Prodigal Guitar went out into the world, became a star three or four times, and returned to wherece it came. This is a touching story. This guitar has a great tone and a lot of soul.
I would be interested to know what the equivalent price of that guitar would be now. My thinking is that with modern production techniques companies can repeat very good quality instruments at prices that are not bargain level but are reachable if you are determined enough. Here in the UK a D45 is just over £10k. That puts it alongside a lot of custom builders so to my mind it should be individually voiced, use very high grade wood, be largely hand built and certainly be immaculately put together. If you took a hundred current custom instruments forward 80 years some will age better than others but all should sound good. So if this one has risen to the top it is not surprising that it sounds like it does. My interest is whether the current crop will age as well. I honestly don't know whether Martin can source the same quality of wood or whether business decisions limit the amount of hands on time the luthiers can apply but I should like to find out. I doubt Martin would let us dig quite that deep but who knows? Maybe we should ask.
Sounds incredible, but I bet I’d prefer a Collings D42AT Varnish with Brazilian back and sides next to it… ps best microphones for acoustic guitar - a spaced pair of Josephson C617SET omnis, the most 3D, lifelike recording you’ll ever hear!
Thirty years ago a friend of the family was at an estate sale outside of Macon, GA and got one. Kinda pissed, not that he got it, but that he took advantage of a poor widow and their family. Haven’t really spoken to him since.
"IM PISSED SOMEBODY SOLD A GUITAR AND SOMEONE ELSE BOUGHT IT!!!" 🤣🤣🤣 what an idiot
PIUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG 😂
It's hilarious how the current head of Martin talks like he's a time traveler 🤣
Is there a sign on the door saying "Kurt Russel is NOT permitted past this point"?
6:40 “There is a zero percent chance that I will ever own a pre-war D-45.”
I guess that means we need to buy more merch and sign up for more courses 🤷♂️ At least it’s for a good cause.
The Martian electric in that museum always catches my eye it would be kind of interesting to see that bc Martian doesn’t do electric
If i want to learn that style you're playing under the beginning of the video, would one of your lesson courses cover that?
Do a Jake workman course instead for that
For a second I thought the thumbnail was true to scale. Now *that* would be the greatest guitar on earth.
By true greatness I thought you meant Sean Daniel
A 160$ Mitchell Grand Auditorium is my holy Grail. White finish with cheap inlays and cosmetic damage out of the box. I've gotten the absolute best tone for my crossnote D tuning with that guitar
Yeah this is the thing, plenty of cheap guitars that can be amazing. A guitar is never worth $500k, hell probably not even $5k if it's for the playability and tone.
Folks regularly play Strad violins in concert & they get stolen, broken, recovered, fixed & they cost way, way more than some old Martin. So maybe $500k isn't so far to dream, Mr Samurai....
Most violinists that play these incredible Strad/Guarneri/… are not the owners of these violins, it’s time that Mr Samurai finds a good patron… 😂😊
Love my martin!
This was a cool tour and interview at Martin! Unrelated, but do you think you will ever do a collaboration with Rik Emmett?
This is a beautiful and good sounding guitar. It also could be the way that RUclips compresses the audio as well. I've heard better guitars. I had an HD-28 I thought sounded better than this. Again, I'm not listening in person. I'm sure that makes a huge difference.
Mr Martin contradicts himself, he first said that back then they built guitar at "the edge of breaking", so this is what makes those guitars great, later on the interview he said that if there was a guitar from back then that stayed in the case for all those years than it wouldn't sound so good, that is not true, I know a lutier who says "a 50 year old guitar is born 49".
I believe that it is true.
Guitars on mass production like Martin can never have the same attention these days as they gave 80 years ago.
🤩 That thing sucks. A seagull s6 sounds literally the same. A $200 synthesizer sounds way worse and way different than a $50,000 synth, but with guitars, it's all stupid meaninglessness behind the insane prices. A guy who put acoustic stings on his electric hollow body sounded more beautiful than this disgusting display of consumerism
When I was playing an old herringbone I was thinking I could trade all my guitars for it and be happy.
I sometimes worry that once I finally buy a top of the line acoustic like a Gibson, Taylor or Martin, that it will feel like it did when I completed GTA Vice City. It left me feeling empty because there is no more going up from there. Am I the only one who feels that way? I have actually never played any of those brands in my 25 years of guitar playing, maybe due to that feeling. Maybe it is just that old familiar feeling of the fear of the inevitable doom of death..
theres always a better guitar dont fret
Hey dude, you gotta pick yourself up a pre-war D-45 😃👍
curious if they forced you to use a capo to protect the 1st/2nd fret?
Neil Young Live at Massey Hall is a great example of amazing d45 tone.
Pre-amble: I'm not very good at guitar.
The best guitar I've ever played was a Martin D-35 Deluxe at a Calgary L&M. The girlfriend was just grabbing some random guitars she thought was nice, handed me that one. I strummed an open G chord and both of us said to each other, wide eyed, "OooOOOooOOoohhhh...."
It was glorious.
A shame I wasn't sitting on $6k at the moment. :P
I found my special guitar. Now i just buy spares of the same guitar instead of new and different guitars. Its stupid. Help
You should collab with Mary Spender if you haven't already.
Cool I have Ibanez myself
Yes............😊
6:14 How can you play the BLUES while holding THAT ...!
'Cuz blues is the best music on Earth, of course....
Obvious bias, but the best acoustic I've heard is mine. My grandpa's 1980 Daion Mugen Mark III that he bought new and left me when he passed. Thing's an absolute cannon.
Damn i can really hear that half mil through my iphone speakers
Barely heard audio of actual guitar being played.
Sounds like a guitar to me
Sounds surprisingly tinny and bad. It might need new strings
How much you were paid ? :)
0.20 "It is considered the most valuable vintage instrument"? I don't think so. There's a certain brand of vintage instrument called a "Stradivarius" violin that sells for an average of $20,000,000. It might be the most expensive vintage guitar but it certainly isn't the most valuable vintage instrument.
Indeed you are correct
I’d even go as far as to say most valuable dreadnought.maybe.
@@erikkibler3466 True, a guitar only needs to be 25 years or older to be considered Vintage.
Fun fact
Stradivarius also made a few guitars in his life, at least one is still intact and in a museum
@@oldgoat381 Cool, I'm going to have to research that one. I'm sure it's worth more than a pre-WW2 Martin.
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I feel like you’re overselling the thing.
Damn, the amount of superstition in this video. You said it yourself at 6:08 "when you know that you're holding something special". I'd argue that it's mostly a matter of psychology. Same phenomenon as the Stradivarius violin.
All that talk about an acoustic guitar and there was even a capo involved,
And not even ones was Wonder Wall played, very disappointed!!!
😜😉😝
the war started in 1939 ......
Yes but America didn’t get evolved until after the bombing of pearl harbor at the end of 1941
but the US joined in December 1941, and didnt start really joining and sending troops until after that
Can taylor swift buy this ?
Nice
No thank you. I only play mahogony.😅
1:22 is that building on a tour there?
Lol. No it's not.
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