C.F. Martin & Company, founded in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin, is a highly respected American manufacturer of acoustic guitars, known for pioneering innovations in the flat top guitar design, including the Dreadnought body style and scalloped bracing. The company, headquartered in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, produces a range of instruments, primarily steel-string and classical acoustic guitars, as well as ukuleles, and has a history of crafting mandolins, tiples, and electric guitars, though the latter are no longer in production.