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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Jonathan Horsley

“She put it under her bed and didn’t play it for 60 years. When I got it, it still had the original strings on it”: Why telling your guitar’s backstory could help it sell for more money

A 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard 'Burst.

There is no shortage of advice online about buying guitars, but what about selling them? Sometimes, thinning out the herd is the hardest thing to do, and we’re not talking about sentiment here – we’re talking about how difficult it is to actually get the price you want for it.

How can we get the most out of a sale? Well, Guitarist reached out to Cyril Nigg, Data Science Leader at Reverb, to see if he had any insights. And he does.

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