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Long termers

recent conversation with a UK guitar dealer, the term “a guitar for our times” came up, which really resonated with me. And the reason that particular phrase stuck was because of a light-hearted conversation I’d had with Fender’s Tim Shaw earlier this year at the NAMM Show in California. Fender had just taken the wraps off its Acoustasonic Stratocaster, a year after releasing the first Telecaster version, and we were discussing how lightweight guitars such as the Acoustasonics were just

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