Nanny Summer Michaud-Skog checks out the guts of an acoustic guitar with her charge, 3-year-old Andrew, during a visit to "Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World!" at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. (Photos by Natalie Behring/The Columbian)Photo Gallery
PORTLAND — Sound might matter, but everyone knows what’s really crucial about guitars: wicked-cool looks.
Consider the rounded elegance of classic hollow-body Gibsons, with their violinlike sound holes. Blues legend B.B. King likened his beloved Gibson six-string to a woman and even named it “Lucille.”
Even more classical looking is the world’s most celebrated electric bass, plucked off a shelf by left-handed young Paul McCartney, who said its roughly symmetrical violin shape made it look less “daft” pointing in the opposite direction from his bandmates’ guitars.
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