The Guitar: An American Love Story

An exhibition featuring a selection of some of the rarest guitars ever created ranging from vintage models to celebrity-owned favorites will open to the public at the State Museum on November 8. The free exhibition, entitled, The Guitar: An American Love Story, will showcase more than 150 world-class guitars gathered from both private and museum collections. This is the only time in which this remarkable, assembled collection will appear together in one gallery, available to the general public.
Some… Show more highlights include one of the King of Rock n Roll Elvis Presley s personal guitars, standout guitars from Grammy-winning entertainer Vince Gill s private collection, the 1953 Fender Telecaster played by famed Rolling Stone band guitarist Keith Richards and three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eric Clapton s 1958 Gibson Explorer.
The Guitar: An American Love Story has been organized by the staff of the State Museum in collaboration with a group of area collectors which the museum s Executive Director Lois Riggins-Ezzell describes as a dream team/brain trust of guitar aficionados. They are: Walter Carter, Joe Glaser, George Gruhn, Jay Pilzer and Paul Polycarpou.
The Guitar: An American Love Story, presented by Gibson Guitar Co. with additional funding from City National Bank, C.F. Martin & Co., PLA Media and Cotten Music Center, will be on view through December 30, 2012.

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