Peter Yarrow was a member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He used this guitar for performances and recordings of the group in 1961 and 1962. The guitar was used on the entirety of their debut album Peter, Paul and Mary released in 1962. This steel-strung Martin guitar, paired with Noel Paul Stookey’s nylon-strung guitar, was a key component of the group’s famed sound. This guitar was used on songs from the album including their first hit Lemon Tree, as well as the song 500 Miles, and their rendition of Pete Seeger’s, Where Have All the Flowers Gone. The album also included another Seeger song, If I Had a Hammer, which garnered the trio two Grammy Awards for the Best Folk Recording and Best Performance by a Vocal Group. The cover of that iconic album features the trio standing in front of a brick wall at the New York City music venue The Bitter End. In that photo, Yarrow stands holding his guitar and Stookey holds his nylon-strung Martin guitar, both of which are now a part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum.
Alas, prior to owning my O-16 NY Martin Peter notes, I had just lost a guitar that did that very thing for me. It was also a Martin guitar; I was used to it, I knew it immediately, and when I put my fingers on it I knew what it was going to sound like-and I really loved that sound. This made it all the more embarrassing and humiliating for me when I left it in the back of a taxi on the way to the airport as I traveled with Noel Paul Stookey to do one of Peter Paul and Mary’s earliest 'club' gigs in Miami, Florida.
Fortunately, I was able to get the O-16NY sent to me from New York in time for our first performance and even more fortunately, I truly loved the sound of it right from the get-go. That guitar and I had many amazing journeys ahead of us including the recording of Peter Paul and Mary’s first album called, simply, 'Peter Paul and Mary.'
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What was unique, at the time, and what made it very easy for anyone listening to a stereo recording of Peter Paul and Mary, is the clarity with which the listener could hear the sound of each of our guitars. For one thing, at Albert Grossman’s direction, Bill Schwartau, our engineer, placed my guitar with my voice on one side and on the other side he placed Noel Paul’s voice with his guitar. In the middle you could hear Mary’s voice. Further, the guitars were deliberately positioned 'full right' and 'full left' in the stereo mix, rather than in the center. Also, and equally important, is the fact that the only instruments that were accompanying the trio’s voices were our two guitars and the bass played by Bill Lee.
This guitar if a model O-16NY Martin guitar, serial number 178024. The tuners on the guitar are Kluson replacements of the original WG-31 Waverly units. The bridge is also replaced with a Martin post-1965 variant. A clear pickguard has been added to the guitar since its first appearance in images of the trio.
Our two Martin guitars became central to our lives under unusual circumstances. It was an amazing, idealistic and heady time in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and the joy and optimism that we felt, as it was expressed in the folk music that we had inherited – and were now beginning to emulate in our own songwriting – filled us up in ways that are hard to express, and certainly to understand, for those who have not experienced it.
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When one is singing folk music, and one’s only instrument is a guitar accompanying one’s voice, the sound of that guitar is a precious thing and an essential tool. To be able to feel inspired, and for that matter, to inspire others, if one is fortunate enough for that to happen, one needs to make a sonic 'marriage' between one’s guitar, one’s soul and one’s voice.
Dimensions: 38 1/4 in. (97.2 cm.), 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) in depth at side
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The Museum's collection of musical instruments includes approximately 5, 000 examples from six continents and the Pacific Islands, dating from about 300 B.C. to the present.The performance by the legendary musician of the Peter, Paul and Mary folk trio was the inaugural event for the U.Va. Center for Politics' new Golden Anniversary Series, which will focus on the landmark political events of the 1960s.
Another first, according to Yarrow, was the cacophony of quacking that filled the Old Cabell Hall Auditorium as he led the audience through the classic folk song, The Fox. This juxtaposition of the serious and silly was an appropriate theme for reflection on a decade marked by both tragedies and triumphs.
Completing A Musical Experience With Folk Legend Peter Yarrow
Yarrow spent the evening with his guitar strapped around his neck, weaving a narrative of his life in music and politics, punctuating the major events with renditions of the iconic songs that were emblematic of the time. He began by telling the story of the folk renaissance that he participated in while living and playing in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, sharing his connections to Pete Seeger and a musician who was reading the paper and making up songs, a man he knew as Bobby Dylan.
After playing his version of Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind, Yarrow shared his first major experience with the civil rights movement. After a phone call from Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary went to Washington, D.C., to play their big hit If I Had a Hammer during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Listening to Martin Luther King Jr. give his indelible I Have a Dream speech, Yarrow recalled his late bandmate Mary Travers turning to him and saying, We are living history, Peter.
It was a history influenced heavily by music. Music, Yarrow said, told the and was not just entertainment. Music is a very powerful tool because it can really create community, explained Yarrow before launching into the Peter, Paul and Mary classic Music Speaks Louder than Words.
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With a personal history rooted in the civil rights movement and protest music, Yarrow said it takes more than policy and logic to bring about political change. Reflecting on the music of the 1960s, Yarrow recalled, It reached right through people's defenses and allowed them to feel moved and vulnerable in ways they might not have chosen to be moved.
Yarrow's story and recollections, connected by his playing of protest songs like Have You Been to Jail for Justice? and This Little Light of Mine, provided an overview of how the important events and movements of the 1960s touched a large group of people. It was an overview and a perspective the Center for Politics plans to build on during its Golden Anniversary Series as it examines in detail the seminal events of that decade on their 50th anniversaries, providing perspectives of those who participated in the political decisions and those affected by them.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics, said the goal of the new series is to show how those past events still resonate today. The 1960s were a time of change and those changes persist in our politics. There are also lessons, both positive and negative, that we should learn from this fascinating decade and that is our aim with this series. Yarrow agreed, This legacy is not over. This is not ancient history. I'm not singing these songs so people can say, ‘Oh, what a great time that was… How irrelevant!'
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Instead of a feeling of irrelevance, Yarrow hoped to leave the audience with a sense of community and renewed commitment to each other. Coaxing everyone to stand up and join hands, a familiar sight at a university known for The Good Ol' Song, Yarrow led the auditorium in singing the protest anthem We Shall Overcome. As the crowd swayed and the sang, Yarrow's message about the continuing struggles of the 1960s resounded as well.
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