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Gilmour’s #0001: The Legend Grows

t’s fun to watch the folklore about this awesomely numbered guitar grow over the years. Back in 2006, Seymour W. Duncan and I went public with the true story of this guitar, and it seems [May 2019] has contributed to and even augmented the legend. It was not given to Seymour by Leo Fender. In 1976, Seymour was winding pickups and repairing guitars at Jensen’s Music in Santa Barbara. A local Central Coast player named Richard Green came to Jensen’s with a 1957 Strat

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