Steel-string acoustic guitar
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The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Like the modern classical
A Gibson SJ200 model
Fingerpicking a steel-string guitar
A C.F. Martin Eric Clapton model
Fender DG-41SCE
C. F. Martin & Company
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C.F. Martin & Company, often referred to as Martin, is an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. Founded in New York City, it relocated to Nazareth, Pennsylvan
Steel-string acoustic guitar
…fingerstylists and have developed unique guitars for this style of playing. Many other luthiers attempt to recreate the guitars of the "Golden Era" of C.F. Martin & Co. This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana…
C.F. Martin & Company in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Earliest X-bracing on size 1 guitar by Martin & Schatz, manufactured by C.F. Martin & Company in July 1842
Vienna-era: Johann Georg Stauffer Terz Guitar (c. 1820–30), and Vienna Stauffer- style guitar by C.F. Martin (1834–35)
New York-era: Stauffer-style guitar (c. 1834), made in New York