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Guitars on Tour: Traveling Exhibit Hints at Possibilities of Permanent National Guitar Museum

Posted 07/03/2012 at 7:00am | by John Katic

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National Guitar Museum Hits the Road

You'd be hard pressed to find a guitarist who wouldn't consider the guitar, by its very nature, to be a work of art. The colors, the shapes, the wood and all those little idiosyncrasies make each guitar While many manufacturers have created showcases of their instruments in specific museums, there has yet to be one singular museum in the United States to focus on the guitar word as a whole.

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