Martin Tallstrom


	Here are the stringed instruments I´m currently using and some accessories. (Click images for a larger view)
Handmade acoustic guitar from Finland by Olav Loef at Loef Guitars. Her name is Aurora. I have installed a Fishman Rare Earth Blender pickup. Listen to a sample.		An SX20 by SX Guitars. At the moment I have it tuned to an open E. Listen to a sample from my song I Don´t Wanna Go. Tablature for this sample here.

Fender FB58 5-string banjo. Listen to a sample.		FP10 from Ibanez. I usually have this stringed as a high-string. The tuning for a high-string guitar is like a 6-string with the lower 4 strings tuned up an octave. For the octave strings I use strings 1-4 from a standard .010 set. Listen to a sample.

Kasuga - Japanese classical guitar.		Prudencio Saez - Spanish classical guitar.

´96 American Fender Telecaster with a Parsons/ Green b-bender. It´s equipped with Custom Shop Nocaster pickups.		Mandolin from Tanglewood. Model TMX. Listen to a sample.

Lap steel from Fender. It´s tuned (from high to low) F# E C# A E A. That equals an A6 chord. I recently changed the pickup to a DiMarzio Tone Zone S.		An old but nice Supertone lap steel together with the custom built case from Oläger Cases. Tuned to an open E. Listen to a sample. It´s played through a VOX Tonelab.

GM-6, a guitar mandolin (or octave guitar) from Gold Tone.		Some of the extra stuff... From above left: Intelli IMT-900 tuner, slide, Jim Dunlop steel bar, Scheerhorn steel bar, assorted picks and capos including a Shubb capo for squareneck resonator.