1929 Martin 00-21

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1929 Martin 00-21

Some of you will recognize this instrument from the pages of our gallery. We photographed it about a year ago after we completed restorations including a neck reset (it's second one), a new hand-carved reproduction pyramid bridge, and a bar-fret reseat and leveling. Well it's back in the shop again, but this time in our showroom. It is a truly wonderful guitar, breathless in tone, with a great balance and evenness across the strings and up the neck. Aside from the obvious extensive play-wear this instrument is in great shape... The best sounding ones have always been played a whole lot! One back crack, and a couple of fairly insignificant top cracks were fixed long ago. There are no other repairs to mention, and no further work is needed - this is a 76 year old Martin that's in top-playing form. Here are its specifications: Brazilian rosewood back and sides, Adirondack Red Spruce top and bracing, 21-style trim including rosewood body bindings and herringbone rosette and backstrip, gorgeous original finish, tuners, frets, and snowflake fingerboard inlays. 1-7/8" nut (bone), 24.9" scale length; 14-1/4" wide and 4 1/8" deep. This is a steel-string braced guitar (this model became braced for steel in '27) and is currently set up with Martin light gauge strings. It has a discreet B-Band A-2 pickup system that we installed last year with and end-pin mounted pre-amp (no holes in the side, don't worry). This pick-up system features a very natural sounding AST 1470 soundboard transducer, and provides an option for an accessory internal condenser microphone. Yours with a remarkably-well preserved original hard shell case.
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1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21
  • 1929 Martin 00-21

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