here at the 2011 Fairfax Festival :
Supported by a conceptual and well designed mysterious site….
Artists, history, how they use it and how to use it...
Showing posts with label T17. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T17. Show all posts
12/02/2011
Hobo and the Soundogs
here at the 2011 Fairfax Festival :
Supported by a conceptual and well designed mysterious site….
11/01/2011
MARTIN TIPLE T-17 & T-15 models
It's the simplest model, as he's uke cousin "style 0” it’s a full mahogany instrument with a sober double B&W circle around the hole for only decoration ( some were built with ebony bridge and fingerboard )
The model shyly appears in the Martin logbooks in 1924 with six instruments and no fabrication in 1925 as the company built 725 "T-18" models in the same period .
1926-27 was an all times peak in the Martin Tiple production with 650 T-18 in 1926 and 350 T-17 in 1927 (prices in 1923 was 30$ /T-17, 40$/T-18 and 75$/T-28 )
In the crisis years and mid 30's the company stopped the fancy models fabrication, selling only the T-17 until 1936, but moderately, the golden 20's was behind…
After six years of blank production the T-17 was here again in 1947 but only for three years as the T-15 appears in 1949 and replace the T17 model.
The only model difference is a rosewood bridge.
T-15 fabrication stops in1966 as the T-18 and T-28’s continues…
As for ukes the Martin decal appears probably in front of the head around 1932 as the stamp disapeard behind the head.
Combining the two models we have a total of 2130 of these uncluttered masterpieces, sleeping in attics or singing in your fingers and offering as their fancy expansive sisters, this powerful magic crystal sound .
Informations and Martin Tiples production log book pages is shared here, in this other great MartinTiple fan blog : Brian Myspace page.
Prices, courtesy of Michael Simmons ( his astounding Tiple article in the Ukulele Ocasional first issue is a bible and will be frequently credited in this pages …)
The simple B&W circles around the hole made the T-15/17 a direct cousin of the Martin Style-0 ukulele.
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