Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some amount of the tone and quality of those older instruments comes from the slow aging and stabilization of the woods and glues. Also, the less stable or desirable instruments from bygone days have long since warped and cracked or been replaced. Kind of a "survival of the fittest" phenomenon :-) Guitar manufacture went through some "dark days" in the 70's and 80's. Players sought out older instruments or bought from a kind of pre-Cambrian explosion of new smaller vendors. B. D. Colen wrote: >Martins from the 60s are even going for premium prices. And then there's >just plain old inflation. Every time I gaze fondly at a new D-35, and cringe >at the price tag, I quietly weep thing about the fact that I sold the D-35 I >bought myself for my 40th birthday. :-( Just as the LUG mantra has always >been - never sell it, you'll end up buying it again later, so it should be >with classic guitars; try to buy a 60s Fender without first selling one of >your children.:-) > > >On 8/28/05 11:16 AM, "jon.stanton@comcast.net" <jon.stanton@comcast.net> >wrote: > > > >>"It might be said that it's in fact just the opposite - a Martin from the >>30s >>or 40s is in some ways superior to the Martin of today." >> >>BD is correct...A Martin D 18 from the mid 30's is the most desireable >>instrument for Blue Grass and "Picker" guitarists. The early Gibson >>mandolins >>are also priceless. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >