A beautiful guitar worthy of a great player! Handcrafted with a premium East Indian rosewood back and sides and a bookmatched top of select quartersawn Sitka spruce. Its smaller 000 body size and short 24.9 scale help produce delicate balanced tones. The rosette and soundboard are inlaid with herringbone wood marquetry and the body is bound with grained ivoroid. An ebony fingerboard features a snowflake pattern in abalone pearl. Erics signature is inlaid in mother-of-pearl between the 19th and 20th frets. Tastefully appointed with hand-beveled tortoise pickguard nickel-plated open-geared machines equipped with unique butterbean knobs. Each guitar bears an interior label individually numbered in sequence.
- CONSTRUCTION: Mahogany Blocks/Dovetail Neck Joint
- NECK MATERIAL: Select Hardwood
- HEADSTOCK: Solid/Diamond/SquareTaper
- # OF FRETS TOTAL: 20
- CASE: 533E Geib style
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Like its predecessors this latest addition to the Martin line is built with the same Martin quality craftsmanship with an emphasis on producing great sound in a smaller guitar. The Little Martin is durable and easy to play. It is the perfect 'pick up and play' guitar that lets you jam at home or on the road and is the perfect choice for students. In a nutshell the Little Martin is comfortable to play (despite it's slightly smaller size) tonally viable affordably priced environmentally responsible and compact - making it THE perfect choice for travel practice or students! The Little Martin combines a modified 0-14 fret tenor Martin shape with a 23 inch scale length. The one panel back and sides are crafted from Mahogany Pattern HPL and the top is cut from Spruce Pattern HPL making the Little Martin amazingly friendly in just about any climate. In fact the Little Martin has been atop the summit of Denali and several additional challenging environments and all reports are that it performed amazingly well! Your Little Martin comes with a padded gig bag made of a tough ballistic cloth exterior plush interior backpack straps and a front zipper compartment.
- CONSTRUCTION: Mortise/Tenon Neck Joint
- BODY SIZE: Modified O - 14 Fret
- FINGERBOARD MATERIAL: Morado
- SADDLE: Compensated White Tusq
- RECOMMENDED STRINGS: Martin M550 Phosphor Bronze
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Whether you're a traveling troubadour a beginning guitar student the "Little Martin" LXM is a perfect fit. The LXM features a Spruce Pattern HPL (High Pressure Laminate) textured finish top along with Mahogany Pattern HPL textured finish back and s...[]
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Plays rights - sounds weak
The Martin Backpacker instruments are very useful for the person who:
1. Wants an instrument that "feels right" - meaning the frets are in the right place the intonation is accurate the scale is correct etc.
2. Wants an instrument that you can literally throw into a duffel back or backpack and carry into remote places. (Many American Servicemen I know took them on deployments.)
The tradeoff is that the teeny-tiny sound-box produces a small tinny noise that is weak in volume and almost metallic in tone - the closest thing I can think of to describe what it SOUNDS like is one of those old hand-cranked jack-in-the-boxes.
It DOES play right though and if you want an instrument that will keep your fingers in shape is decent to practice on and you CAN take it anywhere you can sling it over your shoulder - then the Martin Backpacker is right up your alley.
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