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Electric Dreams

Unplugged acoustic may be the fundamental voice of the guitar, but its most viscerally exciting sounds are all electric. Brought in when radio, powered flight instrument of the rock ’n’ roll era. That’s why, as the electric guitar celebrates its 90th anniversary, we’ve devoted this issue to the iconic instruments, inventors and musicians who helped give birth to the modern electric guitar.

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