Awesome pair of 37 D's - Eye and Ear Candy - guitar related of course!
 

At MartinFest last Friday I stopped and picked up an old guitar and started jamming around a bit with someone else sitting there holding another old guitar on an old fiddle tune called Blackberry Blossom. It turns out the guitars were from Bob Hamilton's pre-war collection - a 1937 D 18 (blue shirt) and a 1937 D 28 (red shirt). Maury Rutch of Maury's Music was wandering around with a camera and shot this video. Too bad my technique does not bring out the full sound of the D 28, it is an awesome guitar! Not shown is a long-scale '34 000 28 that was also in the area.



CK

Cool! Great to hear these old guitars!

- Glenn

You should check out next year's MartinFest over at UGMF. Bob Hamilton and Todd Yates bring some of the most amazing pre-war Martins, along with several other folks - and they are very generous in allowing attendees play them. Then you know what the pre-war buzz is about. Song circles, jams, and open mics a plenty and sometimes special guest artists like Lawrence Juber or Jack Lawrence.

Here is a peek at some of Bob's pre-war D 28's. This does not include some amazing D 18's, OM and 000 models.

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CK