Description
Lovies Guitars is excited to offer up this 1930’s Martin Ukulele Style 3 with a Koa Finish! The continuing appeal of Hawaiian music through the past 100 years is based in part on the music itself, which evokes exotic images of life on a Pacific island, and in part on the fact that all you really need to get to that state of mind is a ukulele. As perhaps the easiest of all fretted instruments to learn to play, the ukulele is often seen as a toy, but many musicians and instrument makers took the uke seriously. The most serious of all – in terms of quality of instruments – was the C.F. Martin company, and one of the rarest of all Martin models is this Style 3K concert-size uke.
Martin started with three all-mahogany models, called simply Style 1, Style 2, and Style 3. They featured progressively fancier ornamentation; Style 1 had an outer binding layer of rosewood, Style 2 had ivoroid (ivory-grained celluloid), and Style 3 was given seven-ply binding around its top plus an inlaid ornament of bone (or celluloid) on the body and headstock. The fingerboard of the Style 3 also stood apart from the small dot inlays of the 1 and 2, featuring paired-diamond inlays at frets 5, 7, and 9, plus three pinstripe lines down the center of the fingerboard. Martin began making koa guitars to fill special orders from Southern California Music and introduced the koa 0-28K under its own brand in 1917. Oddly, it would be three more years before Martin introduced the 1K, 2K, and 3K, which were the same design, but had bodies and necks made of koa. This guitar is in excellent shape for its age with a couple minor indents and a few light finish checks, rated at 9.5/10. All original and free of any breaks, cracks or repairs. Included with this guitar is an original hard-shell case and a complimentary sample of Fret-Not, our preferred fretboard cleaner, check it out at fretnot.net! Thank you for considering this exceptional instrument from Lovies Guitars.
1st Fret: .570”
9th Fret: .805”
Serial: N/A
SKU: 7203
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