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Continuing the journey through wonderful instruments in a local music store.
This one, the Martin OM28 Marquis, resides among Martins top level issues (we are now on a list price over $5000).
- Top: Solid Adirondack Spruce
- Back and side material: Solid East Indian Rosewood
- Martins list price: $5299.00
- Martins presentation: http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/choosing/guitars.php?p=m&m=OM-28%20Marquis
My impression:
- This specific guitar had a too low action for the style of playing I do here. You hear the strings rattle against the fretborad. I think though that this is a guitar suited for more delicate playing than I do here.
- The sound of this one does not impress me as much as I would expect from its price. Well, it is a very good guitar no doubt, but so is the price. As a comparison, the likely prised Martin Crosby, Stills and Nash; Gerry Tolman Tribute Edition, which I also tested and which I will post samle of later, was way more fascinating and inspiring to me. But don't take my word too far. It may be that I'm a sucker for dreadnought guitars, and this one isn't. It may also be that this one has hardly been played and things like that - I don't know her history since she was in a music store. And maybe I don't give her justice with my style of play.
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Comment on the recordings:
- I have given no sound correction whatsoever to the recording. No EQ, nothing, just as the Zoom took it. I didn't think it was needed. The guitar is very balanced in that respect.
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Coming later; the other guitars that I recorded, and that I will later post sound samples of are:
Martin 000-28EC (one of the Eric Clapton editions)
Martin CSN (Gerry Tolman Tribute Edition)
This one, the Martin OM28 Marquis, resides among Martins top level issues (we are now on a list price over $5000).
- Top: Solid Adirondack Spruce
- Back and side material: Solid East Indian Rosewood
- Martins list price: $5299.00
- Martins presentation: http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/choosing/guitars.php?p=m&m=OM-28%20Marquis
My impression:
- This specific guitar had a too low action for the style of playing I do here. You hear the strings rattle against the fretborad. I think though that this is a guitar suited for more delicate playing than I do here.
- The sound of this one does not impress me as much as I would expect from its price. Well, it is a very good guitar no doubt, but so is the price. As a comparison, the likely prised Martin Crosby, Stills and Nash; Gerry Tolman Tribute Edition, which I also tested and which I will post samle of later, was way more fascinating and inspiring to me. But don't take my word too far. It may be that I'm a sucker for dreadnought guitars, and this one isn't. It may also be that this one has hardly been played and things like that - I don't know her history since she was in a music store. And maybe I don't give her justice with my style of play.
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Comment on the recordings:
- I have given no sound correction whatsoever to the recording. No EQ, nothing, just as the Zoom took it. I didn't think it was needed. The guitar is very balanced in that respect.
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Coming later; the other guitars that I recorded, and that I will later post sound samples of are:
Martin 000-28EC (one of the Eric Clapton editions)
Martin CSN (Gerry Tolman Tribute Edition)
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Feter
Hmmm ... there s a stamp of Martin guitar here ..
but with mid treble muted here that wont sustain
longer the bass tones are deaf here I dont want ..
your describtion gives an idea of not easy
action as well ? ....thnx alot for sharin !!!!
to be hard on the guitar ...but the one you recorded
was much wider and sounds like a bigger sound box