NUD: Martin Style 0 (from 1947-56)

Jannik Lindquist

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So this arrived today 🙂 My first original Martin! I bought it on eBay a couple of weeks back. It is in much better condition than I expected. It has a set of very old strings on. I tightened the tuners, tuned it up - and it was ready to go 🙂 The sound is phenomenal!

Since it has Kluson tuners and t-frets I assume that it was made between 1947 and 1956.

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Very nice! Congrats!
 
Awesome, still the Holy Grail of ukuleles!
 
Awesome, still the Holy Grail of ukuleles!

Yes :) I was definitely expecting extremely good sound from it - but for some reason I didn't expect playability to be as good as it is on my Kiwaya KTS-4. In some ways, it's better though - and generally at least as good. The action is a very little bit too high at the first fret for my liking but that can be fixed. Overall, I'm extremely pleased. If I had to settle for just one ukulele, this would probably be it :)
 
Wow! I hope to get a chance to play a vintage Martin concert one day.

When you frame it like that, I realize that I would almost certainly focus on saving my Kiwaya KMT-K tenor. I could probably find another Martin Style 0 but I doubt that I will ever see another Kiwaya KMT-K :)
 
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