Chords for Overview of Martin guitars: 15 & 15M series

_ Hi, it's Jeff down at the Music Shop today, another one of these little videos on a bunch of different guitars.
And today I want to demystify this whole question of [G] the 15 Series from Martin,
and the history of it a little [C#] bit, and the [C] 15 and the 15M Series,
and which one's got the solid top, which [D] one's got the, specifically the mahogany top, which [N] has sapolet.
It seems to be quite complicated.
So I have actually read through all of the sounding board magazines of Martin going back until 1997,
and up to 2011, and I have kind of figured out here exactly what it is.
So I'm going to explain this to you with a few examples.
So today I've got a [G] 00, or 00, but I'm going to say 00, okay, for simplifying, but they're the same thing.
[E] _ 0015M, I have a _ 00015M, [F] and I have a J15, [N] okay? _
So, quick history here to kind of set it up.
So back in the 1930s, after the 1920s depression, Martin wanted to start up a series of guitars, all solid mahogany,
that would go ahead and be something that would be simple, _ not many decorations, not many appointments that people would buy.
So they did the 15 and the 17 Series.
_ Then, and it was pretty simple, it would be all solid wood, and then it would _ [A] be [E] mahogany.
_ [D] Then in the 1997, okay, and this goes [Fm] back to, I'm just going to go [G] through the series of the sounding board magazines, 1997,
[C] they just reintroduced the 15 Series, [F#] but they decided to make a D, [G] a dreadnought version.
I don't have the [G] D15 here, but they decided to do that.
But [D] that one was going to go ahead and be, that would be an [F#] all solid wood guitar, but just the top [G] was a mahogany,
and the back and sides were sapling.
_ [D#] Then, six months later, they decided to expand [A#] that out, and they did the [G] _ _ [F]
0015, the 00015, and [F#] the _ [D] DC15E, okay, the DC15E.
The next year, 1998, they [D#] decided to spread it out a little again, [A] and they went to a _ _ 000C15E,
_ and then the next year, they introduced the Jumbo Series, with the [Em] Jumbo 15, [D#] which we've got an example right here, okay.
_ But that was the only [G] mahogany top, okay.
So the D15 was a mahogany top, and the J15, the Jumbo, was a mahogany top, okay, and the back and sides are sapling.
_ Then the next year, in 2000, they went to the 12-string 15, and [C] then they went to an all [F#] solid wood, all mahogany.
And [C] then, again, the next year, in 2001, [G] they had the 15, JC15E, and then they [Dm] grew out the [A] OM15 as well, which was the all solid mahogany.
_ So that was [B] up until 2001, okay, so 1997 to 2001.
Then we have about a 10-year [G] period of time, they brought in the 2010 period of time, they brought up, in 2010 exactly,
[G#] they brought up the [A] 15M Series, and then they introduced [E] the _ D15M, okay, [F] and the _ 00015M, which I've got right here.
The next, about [G] six months later, they brought up the 0015M, okay, and there's no Jumbo.
So that's a quick [E] kind of history to [F] explain [G] that there were certain guitars [F#] of that 15 Series that had, they were all solid wood,
but only some had the solid top mahogany, and the rest [G] was sapling, okay, and then other ones were all solid mahogany, okay.
So what happened is in [Em] 2010, when they went and made that split [A#] for the [F#] DRS-1, would be the all sapling version,
then these other [G] guitars were all solid mahogany, which means the M, okay, for the 15.
So that should pretty much simplify [D#] the reason of all that.
So let's look at a [D] couple of the differences of the sound, [C#] and we can see here that [C] the [F] _ 0015M, [C#] the 00015M, and the Jumbo 15,
you can see that they're slightly different, I'm going to just [F#] let you take a look at it here.
They slightly get bigger, slightly get bigger, and then the [N] Jumbo is definitely a much wider guitar,
and I don't have a dreadnought here, the D15, that would be good to have that, but I don't have it here in the shop,
but this hopefully lets me see the differences.
So what are the sound differences?
The smaller [F#] guitars, the small bodies, are really nice [C] for kind of finger picking, _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ that's what's really got [Em] the volume projected out, okay?
[Bm] So we can strum [C] it, but you can see _
[G] it's _ [F] _ _ not as clear when you [Dm] do that, okay?
Now, let's go ahead and go to [G] the 15, _ _ [D#] the 0000, this one's just slightly a bit [F#m] bigger, it's going to get a little more [C] volume, _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ okay?
[F] These strings [C] don't need to change, well, [G] _ _ _ a little bit more bass, [A] a little bit more volume,
and we get here to a, _ come to the Jumbo size, _ let's go to that one, [C] this one is just, you _ can [Am] hear it,
it's got, it's just ringing, and ringing, okay?
And this one [F] you can, _ [A] _ [G] alright? _ _
_ _ So it's going to continue to have that ringing sound.
So, those [N] smaller guitars are going to be great for finger style playing,
they're going to be really nice for the size of the body, they're a little thinner, not as thick,
but this Jumbo is a little bit thicker, got a bigger [E] body, and it's going to [G] be good for strumming as [N] well, okay?
So, hopefully this little explanation will, like I said, demystify all these questions about the 15 series and the [E] 15M series,
and that you'll see in the, I've done specific product reviews of the [G#] guitars.
Just [A] a last point on the 15 [G#] series, and from the [G] 1997 up to 2009, [N] _ they did have, and this is one of those,
[D] it did have this long pattern here, you can see, long pattern on all the decorations,
it had the, it had the, specifically, these _ [E] enclosed [E] tuners, and it had _ [D] plastic, plastic pins,
had a Tusk [E] saddle, and had a white Corian nut.
When we come to the 15M [G#] series, all that changed, because [F] we've got standard, [D#] we've got ebony [A] pins,
we've got both, both the nut and the saddle are both bone, and we come up to the Waverly type vintage go-to _ tuners, okay?
So that's the difference in it, and it came with, and it comes down to a short pattern, [G] it's a short pattern up to the 9th fret.
So, those are the things, there are a [E] few other changes to it here, the rosette, [N] the rosette and things,
but those are kind of some minor details, some of the bracing slightly, the [F] hybrid bracing on the [G#] 15Ms as well.
But hopefully [F#] that will explain [Am] the overall differences, and to [B] know when you go and choose a guitar,
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