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Dreaming of Electric Guitars
One day in 1947, three visionaries put their heads together to imagine a new instrument that didn’t really exist yet: a solid ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
Rock icon Jeff Beck’s guitars are going on display in London before they are put up for auction
(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) An art handler displays a Gibson, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1954 and 1972 A Solid-Body Electric ...
Orange County Register24d
A look at the electric guitar’s origin in Southern California
What’s considered the best-selling pop instrument of all time was invented by Southern Californian Leo Fender. Aug. 10, 1909: Clarence Leonidas Fender is born in Anaheim. 1928: Fender graduates ...
Sacramento Bee1mon
A Sacramento music legend’s vaunted guitar collection has sold. How much was raised?
The auction’s top seller was a stunning 1954 Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Solid Body Electric Guitar from the first year of the transformative guitar’s production. The catalog noted “this ...