SOUNDCHECK
WHEN YOU INTRODUCE a new acoustic with a name like “Inception,” it stirs up at least one pressing question about a movie with the same name — at least for me. That said, I quickly found out Inception isn’t some fanciful collaboration between director Christopher Nolan and Martin Guitar for an instrument that manipulatively invades your dreams. Instead, it’s an acoustic that bears an imaginative design using sustainably harvested tonewoods, and if anything, might ideally “plant” some genuine musical inspiration in you with its warmly focused response.
So what is the idea behind the Inception