The stunning all-koa Yairi DY1CK Cutaway Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar from Alvarez boasts abalone body binding accents. Voiced for optimum acoustic performance, the DY1CK projects expertly balanced tone and features Alvarez System 600T MKII electronics.Alvarez Gold tuning machines will get you in tune fast and they look great, too. The abalone soundhole rosette is the perfect accent for DY1CK guitar's stunning koa top. Highly polished, perfectly dressed frets ensure maximum playability, even in the highest playing positions. Alvarez's patented Direct-Coupled™ bridge ensures maximum transfer of string energy to the guitar's solid top for superior tone.The Alvarez System 600TMK II Preamp/EQ is designed to offer the finest acoustic guitar tone reproduction available. The System 600TMK II provides a broad range of sonic control, mixing capability for different combinations of piezo/magnetic/microphone transducers, and features an on-board digital chromatic tuner.Koa, koa and even more koa! The Yairi DY1CK is a considerable work of art. The exquisite abalone body binding brings all the aesthetic elements together.

Historically, Martin's 21 styling has represented the simplest appointment level with rosewood back and sides and a spruce top. Introduced in 2007, the OM-21 Special closely replicates this plain but beautiful style by blending rosewood bindings, a herringbone rosette, a nitrate tortoise pickguard and an ebony fingerboard and pyramid bridge. The D-21 Special Guitar shares identical appointments with the OM-21 Special, but in a dreadnought format. The resulting instrument offers Martin's legacy tone with classic style.

Martin is proud to restore the M-38 acoustic guitar back into the stock lineup. Long prized in performing and recording circles, the larger 0000 or Grand Auditorium shape is combined with the thinner 000 body depth to yield notes that resound and decay quickly allowing for new notes resulting in a tonal balance and power that is less prone to stage feedback and thus highly useful in the studio. Style 38 appointments are ornate but tasteful.