“There are people out there that had paid £2,000 for a guitar…and we were still getting emails from people saying, ‘Where’s my stuff?’”: What happens when a guitar store goes bust? A former employee at one of the UK's biggest guitar stores tells all

Connor Wyatt and his dog standing in front of the music store GAK.

Standing proudly on the corner of Upper Gardner Street and North Road in the seaside city of Brighton, GAK (which stands for Guitar, Amp, and Keyboard) was one of the biggest musical instrument stores in the south of England.

From its inception in 1992, the instrument menagerie offered a space for musicians to congregate, try out the gear they've been pining over for months, and find like-minded individuals to discuss the ins and outs of different tonewoods and boutique pedals.