Most Expensive Electric Guitars In The World

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Most expensive electric guitars in the world.

There s not all that many of them still in existence and even for one not owned by anybody particularly famous you re going to pay six figures for one. Formerly the most expensive guitar was the reach out to asia guitar sold at a charity auction on 16 november 2005. Purchased by john lennon and george harrison in london in 1962. It was sold for record breaking 965 000 at christie s auction house in 2013.

Marking his shift from acoustic to electric this guitar was played by bob dylan at 1965 newport folk festival. Often times the value of an electric guitar increases exponentially depending on how famous the musician who owned it was. At number nine on the list of most expensive guitars in the world is bob dylan s 1964 sunburst fender stratocaster. It was signed by a who s who of the world s greatest guitar exponents and.

So it s no surprise that we ve got two of these beauties in the top 5 of. John lennon s 1962 gibson j 160 e electric acoustic was one of a pair of almost identical acoustic guitars. Electric guitars are one of the most collected and valuable musical instruments in the world.