![]() ![]() Playability/Action – Plays well, and has lots of life left in it.A pair of small bolts have been added through the bridge to help secure it, with pearl dots on top. Original deArmond pickup, pots and knobs. Hardware/electronics – Original hardware, except for accurate tuner copies the original tuners are in the case.Finish – Original finish with lots of honest play wear.Body – 00-18 size body with spruce top and mahogany back and sides. ![]() Frets – Moderate wear, the guitar was professionaly refretted at some point.Neck – Mahogany neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard.Pricing – $2,499.99 CAD with newer case.Serial Number – 169093, built during 1959 in Nazareth, Pennsilvania, USA.It’s a great little guitar with a ton of character. Martin 1959 D18E Acoustic Guitar + Original Case Kurt Cobain Nirvana MTV Unplugged RESERVED. This early example has been used as it was supposed to be, and has a lot of life left in it. It is strung with ‘steel’ strings because the deArmond is a magnetic pickup. The Gibson equivalent, the J-160E, used the same heavier-construction approach, but with a laminate top. This is mostly for feedback rejection, but also because the deArmond pickup and controls are fairly heavy. It uses the 00 style body, with the 18 construction – spruce top, mahogany back and sides – but the top is thicker and uses heavier bracing. The 00-18E was built from 1959 to 1964, in response to the quest for volume, and this is one of the first. $4.This is a pretty rare, 1959 Martin 00-18E steel string acoustic. Phospher Bronze guitar strings, and a small black velvet pouch containing silvertone knife, fork, and spoon lapel pins each with pinbacks. The case included three Dunlop 60mm guitar picks, a partial set of Martin & Co. Martin Guitar D-18E Modern Deluxe Acoustic-Electric Guitar with Hardshell Gig Bag, Sitka Spruce and Mahogany Construction, D-14 Fret and Vintage Deluxe Neck. Nirvana and Poison Idea both played at the September 1992 “No on 9” benefit in Portland, Oregon. It was personalized by Cobain with a flyer for Portland Oregon based band, Poison Idea’s 1990 album Feel the Darkness. The guitar is accompanied by a vintage black hardshell case used by Cobain to carry his Martin D-18E guitar. 1959 Martin D-18E, Natural Top, Rare Model, Two DeArmond pickups, Mahogany Back & Sides, Tortoise pickguard, Fine playing Excellent sounding, Gorgeous. The guitar was one of the first Martins to have electric pickups and marked Martin Guitars’ earliest foray into electric guitars.A Bartolini 3AV pickup was added to the soundhole.The bridge was filled in and routed to insert a new slot for the saddle.Voltage Guitars recut the nut so it could be played left-handed.Pickup Selector Switch, Tortoiseshell Pickguard.Design Elements: Two DeArmond Pickups, Three Control Knobs,.Adirondack Spruce Top, One-Piece Mahogany Neck.Wood Composition: Mahogany Back and Sides,.The guitar has plenty of scratches and damage from its short lifespan as Cobain’s favoured acoustic instrument. 1959 Martin D-18E, Natural Top, Rare Model, Two DeArmond pickups, Mahogany Back & Sides, Tortoise pickguard, Fine playing Excellent sounding, Gorgeous instrument. I’ve taken several close up photos which you can see below. He customized both the guitar and it case and used it during several performances before his untimely death on April 5, 1994. He didn’t own the guitar for long, purchasing it with its vintage hardshell case at Voltage Guitars in Los Angeles. However, the star of the show is Cobain’s famed 1959 Martin D-18 guitar, which sits behind a protective glass cage. Photos from the 90s alternative music scene at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum’s Unpopular exhibit. The exhibit does a great job of capturing the chaotic, stripped down energy of the times with one room showing a small Nirvana performance in Australia recorded on tape, as well as plenty of photos from the era. I had the chance to take a closer look at the D-18E at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, where it was showing as part of the Unpopular exhibit – an exploration of the alternative music scene in the 1990s. It would take a further 26 years for the guitar to earn a different type of infamy after Røde Microphones founder Peter Freedman bought it for $6 million, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold.įreedman planned to use the guitar to help support the arts sector and, good to his word, has begun touring it around the world. Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic guitar will be forever associated with the musician thanks to Nirvana’s live 1993 MTV Unplugged performance just months before he died. ![]() Kurt Cobain’s infamous 1959 Martin D-18E, which was sold to Peter Freedman for $6 million, on display in Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum.
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