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Martin Guitar D-13E Retro Walnut

Westerngitaar met pickup

  • Road-serie
  • Bodyvorm: Dreadnought
  • Bovenblad: vuren
  • Achterblad en zijkanten: walnoten
  • Hals: geselecteerd hardhout
  • Fingerboard: ebben
  • Scale: 645 mm (25,4")
  • 20 Frets
  • Topkambreedte: 44,5 mm
  • Pickup: Martin E1
  • Kleur: naturel
  • Incl. Softlight case
  • Made in Mexico
  • Leverbaar sinds Januari 2026
  • artikelnummer 629365
  • verkoopseenheid 1 stuk
  • Top Spruce, Solid
  • Back and Sides Walnut, Solid
  • Cutaway No
  • Fretboard Ebony
  • Nut width in mm 44,50 mm
  • Frets 20
  • Pickups Yes
  • Colour Natural
  • Case No
  • Incl. Gigbag Yes
€ 1.949
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Dreadnought power, walnut flair

Martin Guitar D-13E Retro Walnut

The D-13E Retro Walnut takes its visual cues from Martin's legendary dreadnought, the D-28: White binding, a rosette in the Style 28 design, and a tortoiseshell-effect pickguard echo its classic look – at a much more accessible price, thanks to the fully revamped Road Series. The back and sides are made of solid American walnut – tonally somewhere between mahogany and rosewood, and for that reason also known as Pennsylvania Rosewood. The result is an uncluttered low end and a complex, articulate tone with a direct response. In keeping with the deliberately vintage-inspired look of the Retro models, period-style open-gear tuners sit on the headstock. For stage use, the guitar is also fitted with a Martin E1 pickup system.

Martin Guitar D-13E Retro Walnut, top

A classic body with a modern neck

As the quintessential rhythm guitar, the dreadnought shape delivers driving bass and sparkling highs, while the midrange is deliberately held back a little – leaving more room for vocals and the other instruments in a band. That said, these details shouldn't stop musicians from playing their entire repertoire on it! Like the whole Road Series, the D-13E Retro Walnut has scalloped X-bracing inside, which helps the solid spruce top achieve more volume and a more open sound. The neck follows Martin's Performing Artist profile with a high-performance taper – a flat, modern profile that enables fast playing across the whole ebony fingerboard, rather than the thicker, rounder shaping of older neck designs. A subtly rounded fingerboard edge makes for a comfortable playing feel.

Martin Guitar D-13E Retro Walnut, back

Ready for the stage

For live use, the D-13E Retro Walnut comes fitted with a Martin E1 pickup system. Two controls on the inside of the soundhole handle volume and tone, so the amplified sound can be adjusted directly to suit the room or the band. A phase button can be switched in, and that usually reins in any feedback that might start to build. The built-in tuner, meanwhile, mutes the output automatically while tuning, so the guitar can be retuned discreetly between songs. As a piezo pickup, the E1 picks up the vibrations of the bronze strings and the solid spruce top equally, passing their natural tonal character on, unaltered, into the amplified sound.

Martin Guitar D-13E Retro Walnut, headstock

About Martin Guitar

Martin Guitar was founded in 1833 and is thus one of the most long-established brands in the history of the acoustic guitar. Several of Martin’s developments – including the dreadnought shape, robust X-bracing, the placement of the neck-to-body transition at the 14th fret (as opposed to the 12th fret as found on classical guitars), and the use of steel strings – have now become staples of modern guitar construction that countless other manufacturers have since adopted. To put it another way: Music today would sound very different had it not been for C.F. Martin & Co.

The sound is in your hands

Driven by the instrument's exceptional string separation, the sound of the D-13E Retro Walnut comes across as tight and expressive, especially in combination with the complex tone of the walnut – qualities that come to the fore in detailed playing styles, where musicians really shape the tone with their own hands. Compared with the identically specified 000-13E Retro Walnut, the dreadnought delivers more bass and punch, while the more compact 000 shape is correspondingly agile and balanced. Anyone who appreciates a powerful, versatile steel-string acoustic guitar with walnut's distinctive tonal character will find an instrument with its own voice in the D-13E Retro Walnut.

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