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000-42 (serial no. 73234)

C. F. Martin & Co.
Eric Clapton British

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Eric Clapton played this guitar in a landmark 1992 appearance on MTV Unplugged. It featured an acoustic set of traditional blues songs and reworked versions of his own classic compositions such as “Layla,” which he transformed from a lustful rock song into a tender ballad. The performance reflected a cultural shift in rock and roll, ushering in a new era of acoustic rock and roots music and reviving interest in the less common Martin 000-style guitars.

Technical Description:

Flat top with round sound hole; spruce top, rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard; 24 3/4 in. scale; natural finish with ivory binding and abalone borders around edges of body, fingerboard, and sound hole; set neck with ivory binding and abalone “snowflake” inlays to fingerboard; headstock with rosewood veneer and gold C.F. Martin logo; ebony bridge with inlaid ivory pegs, silver closed-back Grover tuners, celluloid tortoiseshell pickguard; One tuner replaced with open-back Waverly tuner

000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic

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000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic
000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic
000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic
000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic
000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic
000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic
000-42 (serial no. 73234), C. F. Martin & Co., Spruce, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, ivory, abalone, silver, celluloid plastic

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