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SIRE LARRY CARLTON H7 & S7 FM

There are two good reasons not to dismiss these guitars as just another pair of cheap Asian-made also-rans – and Larry Carlton’s name isn’t even the main one. Quite aside from sporting the signature of one of the industry’s most well respected session guitarists, these instruments come from the same stable as the Marcus Miller basses, whose sound-per-pound quality has made them something of a phenomenon in the four-string world. Can Sire repeat the feat for six-string botherers?

Well, they could hardly have picked a better player to work with on this project. Carlton is arguably just as renowned for the purity of his tone as he is for the artfulness of his playing, which has featured on records by the likes of Joni Mitchell,

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