The Pink Floyd guitarist has lauded his Martin D-18, saying “it’s indeed more seasoned than me” but still oversees to beat any more current show.
Whereas individuals may clamour to induce their hands on the latest Fender or Gibson, there’s a reason why more seasoned models still bring premium prices. A vintage guitar features a history – and, as David Gilmour insists, more current guitars just can’t capture the same soul as their worn-in partners.
Within the eyes of the Pink Floyd legend, a guitar is like a fine wine. The sound gets better with age, nearly taking on the soul of all those who have played it some time recently.
Gilmour shared these convictions on his most later portion of David’s Guitars. The YouTube series is giving knowledge into the guitars highlighted on his up and coming solo album, Luck and Interesting.
The reflection was started by Gilmour’s 1945 Martin D-18. “It’s indeed more seasoned than me,” he clarifies. “I think a guitar like this gets way better and superior with age.”
“Maybe something almost the stick that’s holding it all together, and all these pieces of distinctive wood slowly ended up in agreement with each other over a long time of playing,” he muses. “No brand-new guitar sounds very as great as an ancient one in my experience.”
Gilmour’s cherish of a strong vintage guitar is well known. Back in 2019, he communicated comparative assumptions to Guitar World. “I do unrepentantly just like the ancient [guitars],” he concedes. “Older disobedient have a tonality of their claim that regularly takes a long time to develop.”
That same year, Gilmour unloaded off a bunch of his guitars through sell off house Christie’s. The David Gilmour Collection offered a record-breaking number of guitars – counting his notorious ’69 Dark Strat, which went for $3,975,000, the third most costly guitar ever sold beneath the pound.
The sell off too saw Gilmour offering off his ’54 Strat which went for about $2 million. Somewhere else, the Martin D-35 that included on each single Pink Floyd record was moreover sold.
Back in 2003, Gilmour lauded his Martin D-35, naming it a extravagance thing he would take with him to a stranded forsake island. Talking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Circles, he praised it, saying:
“It’s the finest guitar I own. It’s the guitar that’s continuously by my side. I’ve composed around each piece of music utilizing that guitar. My thoughts come through that guitar.”
