Telling the story of guitar making in America. 🎸🇺🇸 This is one of Christian Frederick Martin’s earliest known guitars. Martin is thought to have studied with Johann Georg Stauffer in Vienna before immigrating to New York in 1833. Both Martin’s and Stauffer’s instruments featured scroll-shaped headstocks and in-line encased tuners, adjustable necks with floating fingerboards, and downward pointing mustache bridges. In this video, guitar expert Jeff Wells and musician Jon Mendle demonstrate the