Peerless Martin Taylor Signature

[Dookychase]

I don't know if this is old news but I was browsing the Peerless site and saw that they will soon be offering 2 Martin Taylor models. A Virtuoso and a Maestro.

No pictures or details yet, only one picture of Martin holding a guitar which I guess was one of the models.

[Jazzman301]

I had read this somewhere a few month ago. I know that I LOVE my Peerless Monarch with a routed set humbucker that I got from Lou at Guitarsnjazz . com. He is a great cat and almost exclusively deals with archtops.
I would be interested to see what kind of guitar his signature model will be.

'Mike

[bborzell]

Looks like Martin Taylor can put his signature on more than one guitar. His 10+ year signature had been a Vanden. Hopefully the Peerless models will come in at less than the Vanden price of $10-12K.

[Jazzman301]

I would doubt Peerless will sell a guitar for anywhere near that amount. I could see it being their top of the line and maybe come in close to the $3k mark but can't imagine them selling a guitar for $10k.

'Mike

[clem_gael]

I really liked/missed my Yamaha aex1500 (martin taylor model) with its mag/piezo combination. Hope that Peerless will offer that too.

Maybe I'll wait for the Carvin's Martin Taylor model
Or the Dean's Martin Taylor model
No...wait...the Danelectro's Martin Taylor mondel

[Dutch Courage]

From the Martin Taylor Guitar Academy forum (members only) comes the following reply form Martin Taylor himself (the underlining is done by me):


"I'm planning to go back to South Korea around November, we're trying to co-ordinate the launch around the same time. Once the guitars are in full production I will post information on my website and here on the MTGA.
I'm very excited about the guitars, there will be two models, and both will be very affordably priced."

[bborzell]

Signature guitars always intrigue me to some degree. There are the models that are created from scratch by custom luthiers and then there are those that are commissioned to be built by larger operations who already have established lines of their own.

In the case of the custom models, the cost is usually very high and the artist typically can be seen performing with the custom instrument. In the latter case, the less expensive and more available Signatures usually show up in the hands of the artist along about the launch time and then are rarely seen again in the artist's hands.

One apparent exception is the Conti guitar (made by Peerless, if I recall correctly) which Conti seems to have in his hands pretty much all the time. Makes me wonder how often we will be seeing Martin Taylor playing his Peerless.

On that note, I also wonder how the signature models for Conti and (when they are released) Taylor differ from the current Peerless offerings.

[carlescountry]

There is currently no standard guitar production of Peerless having the same characteristics as the Conti guitar. I imagine the same will happen with the Martin Taylor signatures.

[jmstritt]

Originally Posted by bborzell

In the case of the custom models, the cost is usually very high and the artist typically can be seen performing with the custom instrument. In the latter case, the less expensive and more available Signatures usually show up in the hands of the artist along about the launch time and then are rarely seen again in the artist's hands.

John Pisano is usually seen with his signature Eastman.

[bborzell]

Originally Posted by jmstritt

John Pisano is usually seen with his signature Eastman.

I didn't express my point very well in my prior post. I was thinking about artists who have custom signatures along with "production" signatures from a company like Eastman, Peerless, etc.

It will be interesting to see what Taylor has in his hands after the release of the Peerless. My money (were I a betting person), would be on the Vanden.

[kambor]

I saw Taylor last month in Spain, and he was playing his Peerless signature. I know because the logo was a little bit different. If I recall correctly, it had a floating pickup, and it was probably a carved top because he also placed a microphone in front of the guitar. But I don't know how different will it be from the Imperial...

[Dutch Courage]

Again this comes from the MTGA forum. Martin reveales a little bit more from the coming Peerless guitars:



"The guitar I was playing is a prototype that Peerless Guitars made me in Korea. It's a small 15" body archtop. It's going into production in the next few weeks and they will be commercially available. That model is called the "Martin Taylor Virtuoso", it has a pressed spruce top, the other more expensive model is called the "Martin Taylor Maestro" it has a carved spruce top."

Just wait and see!