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You, the Martin cognoscenti, keep banging on about the "Martin sound".
Today I took delivery of an immaculate 1929 Handcraft Master (typewriter) C tenor, & now I know what you are talking about....a massive solid thumping sound. A sound that will stand comparison with any of my Bb tenors.
I would like your advice....I was intending to re-pad with large resonator black Roo Pads, but the sound I have with the original small rivet pads is so good that I am undecided. Has anyone tried it? If a change to resonator pads gives the same solid core sound....but even louder, then I will change....but the sound is really something special as it is.
May I explode a myth?
Every report that I have read about the "Typewriter" key-work states that it is awkward......emphatically not so. Perhaps I am lucky in having the same sized hands as the designer, but, for me, it is as good or better than any vintage horn that I have played.....& it looks so dainty.
Oooohhh......that sound. :lick:
Today I took delivery of an immaculate 1929 Handcraft Master (typewriter) C tenor, & now I know what you are talking about....a massive solid thumping sound. A sound that will stand comparison with any of my Bb tenors.
I would like your advice....I was intending to re-pad with large resonator black Roo Pads, but the sound I have with the original small rivet pads is so good that I am undecided. Has anyone tried it? If a change to resonator pads gives the same solid core sound....but even louder, then I will change....but the sound is really something special as it is.
May I explode a myth?
Every report that I have read about the "Typewriter" key-work states that it is awkward......emphatically not so. Perhaps I am lucky in having the same sized hands as the designer, but, for me, it is as good or better than any vintage horn that I have played.....& it looks so dainty.
Oooohhh......that sound. :lick: