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Gallery: Guitars of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Can''t make it to Nashville? We bring some of country''s classic instruments to you.

"A popular Chet Atkins guitar was the Gretsch Country Gentleman, named after a 1953 Atkins recording. He acquired this model around 1954, and played it on record and in concert with Arthur Fielder's Bost Pops Orchestra."

Stringjoy has introduced the Ariel Posen Signature String Set, a heavy-gauge Nickel Wound set designed in close collaboration with acclaimed slide guitarist and singer-songwriter Ariel Posen.

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Kemper updated the entire product range introducing the all-new Kemper Profiler MK 2 Series. More Power. More Flexibility.

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The Billy Idol guitarist rides his Knaggs into Nashville.

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Rick Derringer plays the Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1973—the year of ā€œRock and Roll, Hoochie Koo.ā€

Photo courtesy of Carl Lender/Wikipedia Commons

The guitarist and high-profile producer, whose career began with the ’60s garage-rock band the McCoys and included a historic run with Johnny and Edgar Winter, and, more recently, Ringo Starr, leaves behind a deep catalog.

Prolific American guitarist and producer Rick Derringer passed away on Monday, May 26, in Ormond Beach, Florida, at the age of 77. In the 1970s, with Edgar and Johnny Winter, and as a hit-making solo artist, he was a flamboyant stage presence whose biting tone and fluent classic-rock soloing made him a guitar-culture icon. An official cause of death has not been announced, but he suffered from heart ailments and had recently undergone a triple bypass.

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