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To be fair, they also increased the neck pitch of Stradivari and other early violins and fitted taller bridges to make them suitable for (then) modern strings and playing! So it’s perhaps not *that* surprising...
I’m not an expert on old instruments by the way, I just like to see the history in something like this. It’s a wonderful thing and it’s nice to see it being played and not in a museum or a bank vault.
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The old Lyon & Healy parlour guitar that I have is from the 1880s, and probably about the same dimensions as your Martin. It needed a neck reset when I got it, but it seems perfectly happy with conventional steel strings (13s no less).
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein