When Chris Buck from 1928 played a Martin for museums, a top-class Hollywood guitar scandal played heavily in his head

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It is fair to say that the Martin guitar in museum quality is a bucket list experience for every enthusiastic acoustic guitar fan, but when Chris Buck is a 1928 0-42 for the latest edition of the guitaristFlashbacks to a top-class Hollywood-six-string scandal played heavily in the head.

Kurt Russell’s story of Kurt Russell’s guitar-Smash during the filming of The hated eight -Io has unintentionally destroyed the actor who borrowed an invaluable 145-year-old Martin from the company’s museum.

Although Russell was not much interested in misfortune, it had quite big effects. Martin was angry after all reports and changed his policy to never get guitars again for film sets.

Sure, the smashed remains of the acoustics were publicly exhibited for the first time in the last NAMM, but now that when a Martin goes into the conversation in the museum, everyone involved speaks a little.

And Martin is not the only one who feels that way. In the new edition of guitaristBuck was present to demonstrate a Martin 0-42 from 1942, which gave Russell-Gate the Blues Rock Ace Reflow.

“I’m rarely afraid of playing a guitar, but there is something with a Martin who celebrates his 100th birthday that is absolutely frightening,” says Buck. “Even under the controlled conditions of a video shoot. There was never a risk of making a full Kurt Russell with him, but accidents happen … especially around me! “

Regardless of his concern, Buck actually tested the guitar and had some insightful words about how exactly it is to play such a historical instrument.

“As a result, it is difficult to just judge it as an instrument without becoming a romance, playing a guitar that literally swings with history,” he continues.

“Apart from a pretentious nonsense, it was really a great guitar that after a few minutes to get used to her new surroundings, like a bell and – like any great acoustic or ecinous guitar that I have ever played – seemed to come with his, come to come with his own compression and reverb.

“Notes jumped practically from the finger plates and seemed to fill the room in a way that contradicts its tiny size. His condition and a sophisticated inlays – I hesitate to use the word “bling”, but … – everyone felt undeniably modern, whereby the only obvious allusion to his class was the width of the neck.

“While this meant that a more complicated lead play was a challenge, the increased string distance made it so much easier and more defined. This undoubtedly gives an indication of the type of music that she would have made in the first part of her life.

“As someone who doesn’t play a lot of acoustic guitar, I am ashamed to say that most subtitles and nuances of such a historically significant instrument are most likely lost to me.

“The fact that it left such an impression, especially on a day on which countless old, valuable instruments were played, is proof that magic gives in them.”

This special Martin was recently sold in an auction for £ 12,000.

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