"Who wants to play like Pete Seeger today anyway?"
Why would anyone want to play like anyone else, ever?
But people do and usually we take up an instrument after being inspired by the music of someone. I got my first guitar after hearing Jimi Hendrix's *Axis: Bold as Love* in 1968.
For me there are worse people to be inspired by than Pete Seeger. I've found that people who knock Seeger (I've been among them) don't know the full range of what he did, as I didn't.
Seeger gave us "Living in the Country," one of the great 12-string guitar instrumentals, covered by Leo Kottke, as well as the very original *Goofing Off Suite* album on Folkways, an all instrumental record, which includes Seeger's sublime arrangement for banjo of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," which Tony Trischka recently performed live on NPR's *On Point*.
*Goofing Off Suite* was also used as soundtrack music by the Cohen Brothers. I don't think Seeger is ready for the "irrelevant" file just yet.
I shudder everytime someone praises John Denver here -- when I was growing up, that guy was the enemy of good taste -- but that's what makes ballgames.
Guitars, however, ought to be taken on their own merits, no? You don't have to want to play like Duane Eddie to appreciate the guitar Guild made with his name on it.
Whether Seeger is your cup of tea or not doesn't mean the guitar Martin made sucks (though it might -- I've never come across one).