I happened to catch this on my feed... C.F. Martin IVth has retired as of yesterday. (1/1/25) Remains to be seen what his daughter Claire's role will be with the company her family has run for close to a couple centuries. He does touch on the subject about an hour into the interview.





You really gotta' respect Chris for not dragging her into the family business. She will inherit it, but it will be up to her whether she wants to be involved directly.


Other than that, it's just an interesting Q&A with some historical perspective on guitars and the company.

Just finished watching; enjoyed it!

I watched it last night; also enjoyed it.

Peter

We've had a few discussions about doublenecks here lately... of course about electric doublenecks. I was reading up on Martin's new product lineup and some changes to standard models yesterday afternoon, and happened to catch this one.

https://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/new-models-2/Grand-J-28E-DN.html?cgid=new-guitars

I mean... I think it's infinitely cool. Mayer plays one every so often. His is much more blingy than this one built on a J-body with Style 28 appointments. They can't possibly be thinking there's going to be a stampede for acoustic doublenecks... or is there a sub-niche' I'm not aware of creating a market for these?

I gotta' troll the sales boys at the store with this one later today...

There's been a video on YT for ages from NAMM with a guy playing what I recall (it's been awhile) being a double-neck D-45.  Tonight when She's getting impatient with how long I've been online I'll look for it.

Peter (who would so love a Martin doubleneck!)

Acoustically naïve:
Wouldn't one want all of the strings over the sound hole?
It appears the Martin double neck misses... 

Personally, I think an eliptical soundhole would have looked better... but up to a point, no it isn't critical. There are makers who locate the soundhole in a completely nontraditional spot, where none of the strings pass over it. I've even seen secondary soundholes in the top, between the bridge and the main soundhole. Soundholes located in the sides too. Martin doesn't do much of that. At least not yet.

Found it: 

Peter

So cool.    That must be this same guitar they loaned Zoowicky for his solo tour last year. (I guess year before, now...)





I would love to play one, but I sure would hate to work on one!