Martin GT-75
Overview
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- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1965 to 1967
The Martin GT-75 double-cutaway version of the GT-70 made from 1965 to 1967. It had a bound rosewood 22 fret fingerboard, with dot position markers and large headstock with decal logo. Pickups were two DeArmonds.Around 1,555 GT-75s were built in total.
Specifications (22)
Controls
| Tone controls | 2 tone controls |
| Volume controls | 2 volume controls |
| Pickup selector controls | 3-way selector switch |
Electronics
| Pickups brand and model | DeArmond pickup(s) |
| Pickups configuration | 2 humbucker pickups |
General
| Finish colors | black finish, red finish |
| Made in | USA |
| Number of strings | 6 strings |
Body
| Body material | plywood body |
| Body shape features | archtop, double cutaway |
| Body style | archtop |
| Hollow body | semi-hollow body |
| Pickguard shape | raised pickguard |
| Soundhole | 2 f-holes |
Hardware
| Bridge | adjustable bridge, tremolo bridge |
| Hardware color | chrome hardware |
Fretboard
| Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
| Fingerboard position markers | dot fingerboard position markers |
Neck
| Neck material | mahogany neck |
| Number of frets | 22 fret |
| Peghead (headstock) | bound headstock |
| Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Prices (5)
| Date | Price | Condition | Name | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | $395 | new | guitar-list | list price (without Bigsby vibrato) |
| 1965 | $450 | new | guitar-list | list price (with Bigsby vibrato) |
| 1955 | $43000 | new | ||
| 1965 | $400.00 | new | can not remember the exact price, but that is the appox. price. I still have it after 60 years. | |
| 2018 | $2250 | good | Dave N. | Cherry red White Pickguard, batwing headstock. I think even the pegs are original. |
Reviews (1)
MARTIN GT-75 reviewed by Zalmo
Zalmo
This guitar, when first released, received a 10 out of 10 rating in a ROCK magazine of the time. Martin really thought a superior guitar would really help them break into the world of sellable semi-hollowbody electric guitars. I just read today that the build of these instruments was far superior to one of their competitors, Gretsch, and had considerably less real-estate wood-wise than the Gretsch's...one of the things I've always had cognizance of.
Actually, with the Music Machine and perhaps even Moby Grape using thse, I don't know why they really didn't catch on.
The one I have has great action, better upper-neck playability than the Gretsches....and the firey DeArmond pickups...this could've been one of the great Rock and Blues guitars ever. But, it was not to be.
Very collectable as there are only about a total of 1100 or so of these instruments made.
