In 1964, when Dunlop was a Stanford undergrad, he found a 1947 vintage Martin D-18 in a San Francisco music store.

“I saw an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle for the Martin guitar,” recalls Dunlop, a retired U-M Flint philosophy professor. “I went into the city to check it out and bought it from them.” He paid about $300.

At first he played folk music, but in 1969, while teaching at the University of North Carolina, he was introduced to bluegrass.

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