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The Martin D-28 uses a dreadnought design, a naval term adopted and used by many to describe its larger body dimensions, hence the "D" designation. When first created, the dreadnought guitar was seen as less favorable to the standard, smaller-sized guitars of its time.
The dreadnought is a type of acoustic guitar body developed by American guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company. [1] The style, since copied by other guitar manufacturers, has become one of the most common for acoustic guitars.
The first D-45 was a dreadnought guitar based on the Martin D-28 with luxury ornamentation (the "45" designation), [2] made especially for Gene Autry who, in 1933, ordered "the biggest, fanciest Martin he could." [3] This guitar is now encased in glass in the Gene Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California. [4]
Martin's second major innovation of the period 1915–1930 was the dreadnought guitar. Originally devised in 1916 as a collaboration between Martin and a prominent retailer, the Oliver Ditson Co., the dreadnought body style was larger and deeper than most guitars.
This is a list of the 91 original (pre-war) Martin D-45s made by C.F. Martin & Co. between the years 1933 and 1942, generally recognized to be the most desired, and highly valued, acoustic guitars ever made; in American Guitars - An Illustrated History, author Tom Wheeler describes them as "among American guitar's irreplaceable treasures". [1]
Trigger is a modified Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar used by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Early in his career, Nelson tested several guitars by different companies. After his Baldwin guitar was damaged in 1969, he purchased the Martin guitar, but retained the electrical components from the Baldwin guitar.
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