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C.F. MARTIN & COMPANY, NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA, 1969
Details
DAVID GILMOUR: A MARTIN D-35 USED TO RECORD PINK FLOYD'S 'WISH YOU WERE HERE'
C.F. MARTIN & COMPANY, NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA, 1969
An acoustic guitar, D-35, bearing the logo C.F. Martin & Co / EST. 1833 at the headstock, branded internally C.F. MARTIN & Co. / NAZARETH. PA. MADE IN U.S.A. D-35 / 244869, with spruce top, Brazilian rosewood back and sides, the mahogany neck with bound ebony fingerboard and mother-of-pearl dot markers, Brazilian rosewood faceplate, and ebony bridge, with later hardshell case; accompanied by the original pickguard, a facsimile copy of a receipt for repairs carried out by Chandler Guitars, Kew, Richmond, dated 8 January 2003, a facsimile copy of a repairs invoice from Knight Guitars, Surrey, to Mr. Gilmour, dated 16 April 2010, one color photograph by Phil Taylor of David Gilmour playing this guitar at his East Sussex studio circa 2015, and a color screenshot of Gilmour playing the guitar at his Astoria studio in 2005
Length of back: 1915⁄16 in. (50.7 cm.)
Overall length: 40 3⁄8 in. (102.7 cm.)
C.F. MARTIN & COMPANY, NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA, 1969
An acoustic guitar, D-35, bearing the logo C.F. Martin & Co / EST. 1833 at the headstock, branded internally C.F. MARTIN & Co. / NAZARETH. PA. MADE IN U.S.A. D-35 / 244869, with spruce top, Brazilian rosewood back and sides, the mahogany neck with bound ebony fingerboard and mother-of-pearl dot markers, Brazilian rosewood faceplate, and ebony bridge, with later hardshell case; accompanied by the original pickguard, a facsimile copy of a receipt for repairs carried out by Chandler Guitars, Kew, Richmond, dated 8 January 2003, a facsimile copy of a repairs invoice from Knight Guitars, Surrey, to Mr. Gilmour, dated 16 April 2010, one color photograph by Phil Taylor of David Gilmour playing this guitar at his East Sussex studio circa 2015, and a color screenshot of Gilmour playing the guitar at his Astoria studio in 2005
Length of back: 1915⁄16 in. (50.7 cm.)
Overall length: 40 3⁄8 in. (102.7 cm.)
Provenance
The David Gilmour Guitar Collection, Christie’s, New York, 20 June 2019, lot 2.
Literature
P. Taylor, Pink Floyd: The Black Strat – A History of David Gilmour’s Black Fender Stratocaster, London, 2017, illus. p. 68.
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