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C . F . MARTIN & CO .
MARTIN , MAN , AND MACHINE :
WHERE TECHNOLOGY MEETS TRADITION
1 . Snowflake inlay found on the 42 Style Modern Deluxe models 2 . The D-45 Modern Deluxe Headstock Inlay 3 . The Modern Deluxe Series
Martin : “ A company with one foot in the past and one foot in the future with a very steady handhold in the present .” That ’ s how Tim Teel puts it . “ What I mean by that ,” he explains , “ is we have such a spectacular product line — arguably the best acoustic guitars in the world — descended from the iconic instruments of the 1930s and ’ 40s . They were amazing . Those guitars will never go away , and they will only get better as time goes on . That ’ s the past . Our future , though , is informed and inspired by that past . And we can ’ t help but wonder about our forefathers at the company who were designing those amazing guitars , especially as those instruments were coming into their own . If some of today ’ s materials and processes were available to them at that time , what sorts of guitars would they have built ? What would they look like ? It ’ s fun to speculate , but we believe they ’ d look a lot like the Modern Deluxe series .”
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