Happy birthday to a GREAT Martin guitar. I have its cousin, a 1986 D-16M so I know how fortunate you are to own this guitar. These early D-16's are not like the newer 16's that were made later on, which have a mortise/tenon neck joint and more standard X bracing (this does not apply to the current version of the D-16).
Yours and mine have scalloped forward shifted bracing and a dovetail neck joint, basically a souped-up D-18 with somewhat lesser grade of tonewoods. They are killer sounding guitars that can stand with many a dreadnaught for Bluegrass, fingerstyle and just plain strumming.
Congratulations!
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