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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Vintage Instruments On Handa-McGraw International cuts


H.M.I. Vintage Instruments Part 1

It occurred to me that many of our videos on YouTube and elsewhere were recorded using what are now vintage instruments. These kinds of video shorts or long length are fairly common on YouTube but most of these here are in a commercially recorded context and are now available on Spotify and elsewhere. They're not intended to be definitive demos of the instruments capabilities or sound, but another bit of data to add to any exploration on a guitar type.

Mark McGraw playing his early 70s Gibson J-55 (two shorts)



Mark McGraw on a 90s era (approx) Martin 12 string


H.M.I. Texas style Blues on a 1971 Standard Telecaster (with rewound front PU). In a D tuning capo'd.


Mark McGraw on an H.M.I. cut playing a late 50s Gibson ES-330.


1961 Gibson 6 string LG-0 Mohogany top



1933 Gibson L-55 6-string Archtop