Today we're taking a deep dive into the current choices in Martin Guitar bracing. What does bracing do for a guitar's top? What are the different bracing sizes, bracing shapes and bracing patterns? Does bracing change the sound of a guitar? These answers & more - coming up!
This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.
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Eric Skye
Pacific Northwest acoustic guitarist Eric Skye occupies a unique niche between folk, jazz and blues, between fingerstyle and flatpicking, and between composition and improvisation. A lifetime of eclectic interests and adventuresome exploration culminates into a fully realized and identifiable personal style and tone. Eric's wide-ranging body of work is threaded together with an uncluttered minimalist’s aesthetic, a passion for in-the-moment music making, and a love of pure acoustic tone.
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Martin Guitar Authentics in 2024
Martin Authentic guitars in 2024. Welcome to Martins & More with Spoon Phillips! Our friend & long-time listener named Rick suggested that we revisit the subject of Martin Authentic guitars, since much has changed since we last spoke on the topic, several seasons ago. We thought that would be a fine idea, and we recorded this episode back in December, 2024. 2025 NAMM gave us a lot of great time-sensitive content to work up back in January/February - but now it's time to talk Authentic Martin Guitars. Thanks for listening!
This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.
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Tom Fleischman
Our pal Tom Fleischman is our guest on today's episode of Martins & More! We met Tom through the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum (UMGF) and have enjoyed many Martinfests together. He's an avid guitar player with a impressive collection of Martin Guitars, and we hope you enjoy our interview.
Tom Fleischman began mixing feature films under the mentorship of New York
rerecording mixer Richard (Dick) Vorisek in1979. Since then Tom has mixed nearly 300 features, documentaries, commercials, and television projects and has developed long-term working relationships with many directors including Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Ron Howard, Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, and Ken Burns. Tom has had 5 Academy Award nominations, and one win for “Hugo” in 2010. He has also won 5 Emmy’s, 7 Cinema Audio Society Awards, and a Career Achievement Award from CAS.
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Martin Guitar Necks
Today we're taking a deep dive into Martin Guitar necks. Neck shape, neck width, neck profile, string spacing, nut width, scale length - if it's related to the part of the guitar between the headstock & body - it's in today's show.
This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.
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Hi friends- we regret to inform you that recently, both of our day jobs have conspired to take away much of our free time. So much so, that we must take a long hiatus from podcasting. We’ll keep you posted when we know more. For now, THANK YOU for all the support & please enjoy our past episodes. We truly enjoyed producing them.
This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon’s longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employees at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music. Want to support the show? Visit Patreon.com/martinsandmore
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