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Martin Electrics
I'm not overly knowledgable about Martin guitars in general, but I do believe they have dabbled in electric guitars at times, but not with any great success. The fact that Taylor appears to be doing pretty good with their line-up of electrics, does anybody think Martin should seriously enter that territory?
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I do not. I think a Martin electric would be looked at with great skepticism. It would need to be surpassingly good to get any traction.
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The fact that Taylor has recently made major personnel changes in their A/R (artist relations), sales and marketing departments would indicate that they are not yet enjoying the success with their electrics that they were expecting. But then again, that's just my humble opinion and I'm sticking to it. |
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Tom '21 Martin D-18 Standard | '02 Taylor 814c | '18 Taylor 214ceDLX | '18 Taylor 150e-12 | '78 Ibanez Dread (First acoustic) | '08 CA Cargo | '02 Fender Strat American '57 RI My original songs |
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Back in the early 70s I had a Martin F-65 electric. It was a thin-line double cutaway archtop hollowbody with two DeArmond single coil pickups. It had a clear plexiglass(!) bridge. It was kind of like a Gibson ES 330.
Good guitar, but butt-ugly IMO. I played a lot of gigs with that guitar. I doubt that Martin would include an electric line. They seem to be doing quite well just as they are. We've all seen Fender's attempts at making acoustics (ahem). Guitarists are a notoriously conservative lot when it comes to companies making guitars that don't seem to fit with our preconceived notions. RevGeo |
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please post threads about electric guitars in the Electrified section of our forum......
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Martin's electric guitars were a miserable failure primarily because the electronics were inferior. If you look at the history of the electric guitar's development, the real breakthroughs for Fender were their development of good single-coil pickups, and the Stratocaster bridge/vibrato. It is also important to remember that Fender's amplifiers were at least 50% of the equation.
For Gibson, it was their invention of the PAF humbucker which bolstered their success. In both cases, their most popular guitars are still just solid blocks of wood. Martin still outsources all their electronics. I think they recognize their own limitations, and undertand what they do best. |
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Sorry - gotta run and go put on the flak jacket once again... |