Oklahoma Vintage Guitar Blog

I know some are asking, why buy a fine or even an expensive musical instrument such as a Martin Guitar during a difficult economic time as this.  Actually there are many reasons why many intelligent people are buying instruments such as this at this time, who have never bought them before.  One is they are a better investment than the stock market, which seems to be fluctuating wildly these days and is ebbing ever downward.  Not just in modern times but over the centuries fine musical instruments have never lost their value.  Even empires have risen and fallen and civilizations have come and gone but the fine instruments of music of those civilizations have transcended the timelines of economies and social structures to remain timeless in their value and to the point of sacredness to many.  Like the instruments of Rome and the Violins of Stradivarius, for 175 years Martin guitars have become timeless treasures transcending the bubble and bust of economies and have remained valued treasures throughout the generations.  Even the instruments made by Martin during the worst economic time in the history of our country, the Great Depression of the 1930s, still have a super high value today reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars as proven by actual sales in many instances.  Thus proving that economies can slump and even crash, yet the fine musical instruments of the day can soar and even seem immune to flitting and faltering of the values placed on the paper any society calls money.  Why is this true?  I believe it is true because music and art defines a society much more than money defines that society.  Music tells who we are and expresses our eternal soul within while money is just the paper we exchange to be able to decorate the external things of our life not the internal meanings of life, like music and art can express.  For this reason, fine musical instruments become sacred to any society because they are used to express the inner man like few other material items. 
Another reason to buy a fine musical instrument at a time like this is that it is an investment you can enjoy with your own hands.  A guitar can bring families together and give joy in a time of sadness.  It can give new meaning to a life that has experienced great loss.  This is why little children 2 or 3 years old flock to an instrument with great joy and those 90 to 100 years old still smile when hearing the notes of an old favorite. 
The housing market will bubble and bust, the automobile companies will come and go and oil prices will climb and dive, but the music is constant and comforting, and even an escape, at times, from those rough times that seem to surround us.  Thus, when asked, "Why would you want to be in the Guitar Business at a time like this," my answer is always, "what could be a better time to be handling the instruments that soothe the soul and transcend our cash society, than in a time when souls are troubled and cash seems to be becoming worthless."  Today more than any other time in my lifetime, Americans need something they can hold in their hands and value, something that makes them smile and something that makes them sing.  They need something that brings them together rather than tearing them apart.  I can think of nothing better to do this than a fine musical instrument such as a guitar.