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THE NEWS MAGAZINE FOR MUSIC PRODUCTS RETAILERS<br />
GUITARS<br />
April 2018<br />
Volume 35, No. 4<br />
BE SURE TO WATCH<br />
TURN IN<br />
SOLID<br />
2017,<br />
LED BY<br />
ELECTRICS<br />
It’s Electric!<br />
By Brian Berk<br />
Reports of the steep decline of the electric guitar have been greatly exaggerated. In<br />
a June story titled “Why My Guitar Gently Weeps,” a Washington Post reporter alleged,<br />
“the slow, secret death of the six-string electric” was currently taking place. This story re-<br />
ceived plenty of attention, and perhaps was the stor y about electric guitars that ever yone<br />
has talked about for the past 10 months.<br />
As they say, the proof is in the pudding. Not only did electric guitars not suffer a de-<br />
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