{"id":15969,"date":"2025-07-16T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/?p=15969"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:17:19","slug":"review-martin-ceo-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/review-martin-ceo-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Martin CEO-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thomas Ripsam&#8217;s CEO-11 is an exquisite work of art<\/h2>\n<h3>The Chief Executive of Martin Guitar has surpassed his sublime CEO-10, which is really saying something<\/h3>\n<p><em>Martin CEO-11 specs include: 14-fret Grand Auditorium body size; solid tonewoods include figured white oak sides and three-piece back; FSC-certified European spruce soundboard with unique New Horizons burst finish and custom inlays and half-herringbone &#8220;rope&#8221; purfling; European flamed maple binding; two-piece flamed maple neck with dark mahogany stain, and GE Modified Low Oval profile and neck heel; ebony fingerboard with custom abalone inlays and High Performance Taper, 1-3\/4&#8243; at the bone nut, 2-1\/8&#8243; at 12th fret; ebony bridge with bone saddle and bone pins with abalone dots; ebony headstock face plate with abalone Unalome inlay and open nickle tuners; Fishman Aura electronics with custom-voiced microphone image.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gorgeous to see, lovely to hear. The versatility of this acoustic-electric lap piano is immediately evident from its bass-to-treble balance and its clear yet colorful tonal pallet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3p2sf-47Y\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15970\" src=\"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Martin-CEO-11_screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Martin-CEO-11_screenshot.png 1041w, https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Martin-CEO-11_screenshot-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Martin-CEO-11_screenshot-768x454.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3p2sf-47Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Full Review Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Ripsam&#8217;s CEO-11 is an exquisite work of art The Chief Executive of Martin Guitar has surpassed his sublime CEO-10, which is really saying something &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,119],"tags":[26,647,193,656,420,446,12,474,655],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitars","category-namm","tag-c-f-martin","tag-ceo-11","tag-european-spruce","tag-forest-stewardship-council","tag-fsc","tag-grand-auditorium","tag-martin","tag-ripsam","tag-white-oak"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Martin CEO-11 | One Man&#039;s Guitar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Martin&#039;s CEO-11 has surpassed the sublime CEO-10, which is really saying something. 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