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Venetian guitar with mother-of-pearl inlays lyre-shaped guitar
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Blue electric guitar with a white pickguard and brown fretboard, shown against a white background. Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster American bluegrass musicians playing mandolin (left) and guitar (right). Features of a modern acoustic guitar.
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Venetian guitar with mother-of-pearl inlays
Guitar with mother-of-pearl inlays from Venice, 17th century.
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lyre-shaped guitar
A lyre-shaped guitar from the 1800s.
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electric guitar
An electric guitar.
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Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster
British blues rock musician Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster in London,...
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American bluegrass musicians playing mandolin (left) and guitar (right).
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Features of a modern acoustic guitar.
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