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Old 11-06-2011, 10:52 AM
Wade Hampton Wade Hampton is offline
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Did he play Martins during his career? I always remember him with a Guild or a Yamaha.
In the early Simon & Garfunkel photos when he has a guitar in his hands it was usually a Martin dreadnought, though I understand that a lot of the recordings were made with a Martin 00-18. Then after he and Garfunkel parted ways most of the live performance photos of Simon that I've seen have shown him with a black Yamaha Triple O copy, which he gigged with for quite some time.

I happened to meet the Yamaha R&D luthier who built that guitar for Simon when I visited Yamaha corporate headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan. Nice guy, and very pleased and proud that Simon used the guitar onstage so much.

According to interviews I've read, though, Paul Simon's personal favorite among the many guitars he owns is a custom Gurian jumbo that he ordered with a wider neck than was common for Gurians.


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