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THERE’S A STORM A’COMING

After some years of relatively flat, consistent prices, 2022 has seen numerous guitar companies pushing up their prices – and we can expect more. What’s driving these increases? Or have guitar companies just gotten greedy?

“The biggest driver has been Covid,” states Gavin Mortimer, emphatically. “For example, there was the price of a shipping container that ended up costing four times as much as it did pre-Covid. And during the height of Covid you were lucky to actually get a container on a boat

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