Johnny Cash used it for songwriting, it was Jimmy Page's go-to acoustic, and Neil Young's used to belong to Hank Williams: Get the guitar of legends, the Martin D-28, for $200 less this Black Friday

A beautifully shot Martin D-28 acoustic guitar

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Celebrity endorsements don't come much bigger: Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Brad Paisley, and Noel Gallagher – the Martin D-28 was so prevalent in the history of recorded music that when you think of a great acoustic sound, you're probably conjuring up the D-28.

A classic Dreadnought with an ebony fingerboard and a mahogany neck, a solid spruce top, and East Indian Rosewood back and sides, it is smooth and boomy, great for rockers and fingerstylists

Well, what else are the Black Friday sales for, if not to invite you to get something special at slightly less? The D-28 is onsale now at Guitar Center for at $200 off the asking price.

Johnny Cash nicknamed his Martin D-28 "Bon Aqua" after his farm in Bon Aqua, Tennessee. That's where the guitar stayed, as home to him as the farm itself. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page upgraded his Harmony Sovereign to a D-28 after Led Zeppelin IV – it became his main acoustic.

Neil Young bought a D-28 that once belonged to Hank Williams and wrote a song about it, This Old Guitar. "This old guitar ain’t mine to keep/I’m just taking care of it now," it goes. These are guitars to be cherished and passed on.

Here's Daryl Robertson, the Senior Deals Writer for Guitar Player and Guitar World, demonstrating a D-28 standard earlier this year.

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