Sunday at the Met—Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin
Learn how Christian Frederick Martin created a uniquely American form of the guitar and, through the company he founded, influenced 180 years of American music. With performances by Douglas Back and Thom Bresh on historic and modern Martin guitars.
Welcome and Introduction:
Jayson Kerr Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator, Department of Musical Instruments, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lecture:
Early American Guitars: Unlocking the Mystery, Parts 1 and 2
Peter Szego, independent historian
Performances:
Doug Back
Thom Bresh
Recorded March 16, 2014
Credits
This program is made possible by Bank of America.
This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin.
Martin Guitar In Mexico
In this installation of A Word From Chris, Martin Guitar CEO Chris Martin discusses the craftsmen and women who create Martin Guitars and Strings in Navajoa, Mexico.
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New Guitar Review: Martin Guitars GPC-16E | Affordably Priced and Made in the USA!
Martin guitar continues to roll out new compelling updates to its models that bring more value while also returning to vintage designs and aesthetics. The updates to the Martin 16 series continues these efforts with new tonewoods, features and aesthetic choices along with an extremely afforable price in an all-solid wood acoustic guitar that is still crafted in Martin's Nazareth, Pennsylvania factory. The GPC-16E combines these features and value with the Martin aesthetic in a modern Grand Performance cutaway model. The Grand Performance body is wider at the lower bout than a Martin OM or 000 but is has a tighter waist and lighter bracing than a dreadnought. This is the guitar that is meant to perform well across a number of different playing styles. The smaller top and lighter bracing ensures the guitar will respond well to a light touch that comes with finger style performances. The additional real estate on the lower bout means that a flat pick won't overwhelm the guitar and volume is available in spades. In short, this guitar handles what ever you throw at it. The availability of solid East Indian Rosewood back and sides is typically not something that is available at this price from an American manufacturer. The fast playing neck and Fishman electronics finishes off this compelling option that is sure to turn some heads.
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Martin Guitars - Construction
Diane talks to us about the various ways your Martin guitar is made. Often with painstaking precision, from the selection of the woods right up to the finish, nearly all phases of construction are done by skilled workers in the Martin factory.
The Parkway Music Martin Factory Slide Show
Our friend, Tom Murphy, from Parkway Music in Clifton Park, NY got to spend a special, VIP day visiting the Martin Factory in Nazareth , PA. Martin rolled out the red carpet for Tom and he took tons of pictures. He put together this slide show, which he narrates, of his visit. It's pretty cool.
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Tom also recorded a brief demo and walkthrough of one of the guitars he ordered during his visit to Martin. You can find that review at:
The 275th Anniversary Parade of Nazareth, PA
This year marked the 275th Anniversary of the town of Nazareth PA. Come celebrate as participants cheer with blue and white confetti and mark their anniversary season with a parade.
Chris Martin, Chairman and CEO of Martin Guitars, was the Grand Marshall.
Dapper Dan the Clown, a Lehigh Valley Icon, marked the end of his 60 year career with one last celebration with his fans.
US guitar maker plays it simple during recession - 26 Aug 09
For most US companies, the global economic slump has meant a downturn in business and layoffs of staff.
But not so at one small factory in Pennsylvania, where focusing on an entry-level product has kept skilled craftsmen and -women employed.
Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman went to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to find out how Martin Guitars has survived the tough times.
Brandywine Battlefield Trail at Birmingham Hill, PA
This is a still photo study for a future HD video project on the Brandywine Battlefield Trail at Birmingham Hill. The trail is the result of a cooperative effort by Birmingham Township, Chester County (PA) and The Brandywine Conservancy, who recently acquired the historic property located in the center of the Battlefield area. Setting the resolution at 480p (right side of menu bar below the screen) is recommended for best quality viewing.
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American Visions Presents: Alan Berndt 2012 Lower Nazareth,Pennsylvania Wegmans
In this video we see another great performance by local talent and professional Musician Alan Berndt who has really hit up the Wegmans trio in the Lehigh Valley,PA Area.
This is proudly the third video we've shot this year.
Keep it up Alan!
Lets Go! Ep: 5 Crayola Experience, Glencairn Museum Tours and More!
The spotlight is on fun and excitement in the Greater Lehigh Valley and beyond. So... check your calendar and Let's Go!
Crayola Experience, Imagi Nation, Historic Nazareth Walking Tours, Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Glencairn Museum Tours, Smoke & Mirrors Magic Theater, Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum,
Gibson Museum: Dr. John Parker History of Hobergs
Dr. John Parker renown archaeologist discusses the history of Hobergs' Resort on Cobb Mountain.
The World's Largest Private Rare and Vintage Guitar Collection: Songbirds Guitar Museum | Reverb.com
Vince Gill and Johnny Smith give us an exclusive look inside the new Songbirds guitar museum. With over 1,700 specimens from the 1920s to the 1970s, the museum is now the largest vintage fretted instrument collection in the world.
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How to Say or Pronounce USA Cities — Nazareth, Pennsylvania
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Logging Rules Put Pressure On Music Makers
(12 Apr 2018) International trade rules adopted to save the world's tropical rosewood forests from extinction now have U.S. guitar companies and other musical instrument makers singing the blues.
Fearful that Africa and Asia were losing rosewood forests, governments in 2016 adopted tough regulations to stem the flow of illegally logged rosewood to China's luxury furniture manufacturers. The treaty covers up to 300 species of rosewood.
The guitar industry's frustration is focused on the United Nation's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES.
Tasked with combating wildlife smuggling, the agency has tangled in the past with instrument makers, mostly over trade restrictions on ivory, tortoiseshell and whale bone.
The new regulations have ensnared companies that use relatively tiny amounts of the fragrant hardwood in the guitars, clarinets and oboes they make or sell.
China brings in almost two million cubic metres of rosewood per year. We use under 50 cubic meters, said Frank Untermyer, the supply chain director for C.F. Martin and Co. of Nazareth, Pennsylvania which gets and get most of its rosewood from sustainable plantations in India.
At the Gemwood lumberyard in Kochi, Kerala India, workers prepare the rosewood for use in guitars, pre-cutting guitar backs, sides and fingerboards for shipment. The company sources lumber from sustainable forests within the country.
Martin and other guitar makers have complained about extensive delays in getting the necessary permits for importing rosewood and exporting products from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which saw applications double to 40,000 in 2017 mostly from rosewood.
In the first few months after the regulations took effect last year, acoustic guitar exports dropped about 28 percent and electric guitar exports declined 23 percent, according to the Music Trades magazine, an industry publication. Music retailers reported losing $60 million.
The new regulations further required permits for products made from the wood, such as guitars, violins, bagpipes and xylophones. Companies _ most of which had never needed permits before _ had only three months to comply.
John Bennett, an attorney representing musicians in New York says the regulations have made traveling with instruments containing rosewood a worrisome process. They've called authorities ahead and said I'm coming, I think I have the right permits, and then it turns out they don't. And there bow or violin has been confiscated.
Susanne Breitkopf, the policy manager at the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has documented smuggling in several countries, including the shipment of 1.4 million illegal rosewood logs from Nigeria to China worth $300 million. She says Chinese demand is driving the illegal logging.
The United Nations says the rosewood trade is the world's most costly wildlife crime with seizures totaling more than almost all other wildlife species combined. Between 2005 and 2015, 10,000 metric tons of rosewood was seized.
Most of the wood was headed to China, where rosewood imports jumped 2,000 percent from 2005 to 2014, according to the conservation group Forest Trends. Much went into the production of Ming and Qing dynasty reproduction furniture popular with affluent Chinese.
CITES and environmentalists said it was too early to say whether the new regulations were impacting imports to China, which have continued to rise.
Neither a spokesman for China's forest administration nor its furniture making association responded to repeated requests by email and phone by The Associated Press for comment on the rosewood imports.
The attention to illegal rosewood has put guitar makers in a difficult spot.
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Gibson USA - Factory Tour
The Gibson USA guitar factory is located Nashville, TN. Inside the factory skilled Luthiers craft some of the finest guitars in the world. The intricate process of binding, neck-fitting, painting, buffing, and tuning creates incredible musical instruments.
Francesco Cafiso 5et: Not White Anymore
Francesco Cafiso AltoSax
Dino Rubino Trumpet
Mauro Schiavone Piano
Giuseppe Bassi Bass
Roberto Pistolesi Drums
Francesco Cafiso (Vittoria 24 Maggio 1989)
One of the most precocious talents in the history of jazz. When he was barely nine years old Francesco took his first steps, working with internationally famous musicians. Meeting Wynton Marsalis in Pescara at the jazz Festival held on July 2002 was a decisive moment for Francesco's career.
Amazed by Francesco's qualities, Marsalis took him along with his septet on his European tour 2003, where Francesco performed in prestigious theatres in the largest cities in Europe. From that moment on, Francesco went through a series of important experiences both in Italy and abroad.
He won various important prizes: the Massimo Urbani National Award in Urbisaglia, the EuroJazz Award in Lecco, the International Jazz Festivals Organization Award in New York, the World Saxophone Competition in London, the Django d'Or in Rome and many others.
In order to improve his English, but most of all, in order to experience new musical styles and genres, Francesco went to New Orleans where he played with Ellis Marsalis, Jason Marsalis, Thadeus Richard, Bob Franch, Maurice Brown and many other important local musicians while taking special lessons from Alvin Batiste.
In 2004, he participated as a special guest in the Sanremo Music Festival.
In 2005 the Swing Journal, the authoritative Japanese jazz music magazine, confers him the New Stars Award, prize reserved to the emergent foreign talents.
Immediately after, the affirmation in the Top Jazz, referendum of the Italian Music Jazz magazine, that recognizes him as the best new talent of the year.
Francesco has performed with world famous musicians: Hank Jones, Dave Brubeck, Cedar Walton, Mulgrew Miller, Jonathan Batiste, Ronnie Matthews, Jimmy Cobb, Ben Riley, Ray Drummond, Reggie Johnson, Doug Sides Lewis Nash, James Williams, Joe Lovano, George Mraz, Joe Locke, Enrico Rava, Gianni Basso, Dado Moroni, Franco D'Andrea, Franco Cerri and many other Italian and American musicians.
In February 2006 Francesco achieved the Diploma in Transverse Flute at the Musical Institute V. Bellini in Catania.
Since 2008 he has been Artistic director of the Vittoria Jazz Festival in Vittoria his native city.
On January 19, 2009 he played in Washington DC during the celebrations in honor of President Barak Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. day.
On July 17, 2009 the Umbria Jazz Foundation named Francesco Ambassador of the Italian jazz music in the world. In 2012, he arranged Don't Stop the background music for the current commercial for the ENI station.
In July of 2012, for the Olympics, he was invited to perfom in London, at the headquarters of the Casa Italia in the presence of the Italian Ambassador in London and of the leaders of CONI.
In September of 2012, during a long stay in the United States, he has held a series of master classes in Saxophone at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
The Band The Weight (Take A Load Off Fanny) Bass Cover
The Weight is a song written by Robbie Robertson. Probably the best known, although in the U.S. the lowest charting, version was released by The Band as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968 and appeared one week later on the group's debut album Music from Big Pink. The song is listed as #41 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004, and Pitchfork Media named it the thirteenth best song of the Sixties. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
The Weight takes the folk music motif of a traveller, who in the first line arrives in Nazareth, the hometown of the guitar manufacturer C. F. Martin & Company, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. (The band Nazareth took its name from this line.) Once there, he encounters various residents of the town, the song being a story of these encounters.
The residents include a man who cannot direct the traveller to any lodging, Carmen and the Devil walking side by side, Crazy Chester, and Luke waiting on Judgment Day while leaving his young bride behind and alone.
Musically, the song shows the blending of folk parlour song (harmonies) in the chorus, where the voices come in: and, (and, and), you put the load right on me (you put the load right on me).
In his autobiography, This Wheel's on Fire, Levon Helm explains that the people mentioned in the song were based on real people The Band knew. The Miss Anna Lee mentioned in the lyric is Helm's longtime friend Anna Lee Amsden.
On August 17, 1969, The Band played The Weight as the 10th song in their set at Woodstock. Consequently, the song is prototypical of the Woodstock Generation, even though it was more than a year old by that time. Source Wikipedia.
Levon Helm — vocals, drums
Rick Danko — vocals, bass
Garth Hudson — piano
Richard Manuel — Lowrey organ, backing vocals
Robbie Robertson — guitar
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