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Watch Sarah Longfield craft a beautifully ethereal ambient piece with a Martin GPC-X2E and a modular synth

By Jackson Maxwell

Perfect for those looking for a dependable travel guitar, the GPC-X2E shines in Longfield's hands

You probably know Sarah Longfield best for her spidery, genre-hopping tapping work - usually done on one of her signature Strandberg electric guitars. 

And while she is indeed one of the world's premier seven/eight-string guitarists, the breadth of Longfield's talent goes far beyond her monster chops and lightning-fast tapping.

Case in point is the above video, which Longfield kindly shared with us. In it, she creates a gorgeous ambient piece with a modular synth and Martin GPC-X2E acoustic guitar.

Perfect for those looking for a dependable travel guitar, the GPC-X2E shines in Longfield's hands, with its Fishman MX electronics and Martin Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0 strings providing for a bright, vivid and lush sound that pushes sonic boundaries, but is still coated with that unmistakable Martin polish. 

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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player (opens in new tab). Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder (opens in new tab) and Unrecorded (opens in new tab). Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.

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