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New Acoustics With Old Souls (Live from the Fretboard Summit 2024)
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John Slobod builds guitars to sound like a new Martin in 1933, then waits 50 years for the vintage magic.
As heard by us
A summit panel about aging, tone, and the craft of making new guitars sound old.
At the 2024 Fretboard Summit in Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, Jason Verlinde sits down with John Slobod, T.J. Thompson, and Steve Nall for a conversation built around a deceptively simple question: how does a new acoustic guitar start to sound old?
Why you'd press play
If you want to hear guitar builders argue over how a new acoustic can sound old.
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