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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
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