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David Gilmour’s Iconic ‘Black Strat’ Smashes All-Time Record For Most Expensive Guitar Ever Sold

Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour’s iconic “Black Strat” electric guitar set an all-time record on Thursday (March 12) during a Christie’s auction in New York when it became the most expensive guitar ever sold. According to The New York Times, the guitar that was a key part of such classic Floyd albums as 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon, 1975’s Wish You Were Here and 1979’s The Wall sold for $14.55 million to an online bidder in a 21-minute bidding war, more than doubling the previous record-holder, late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E acoustic guitar which he played on MTV Unplugged just months before his April 1994 death, which sold for $6.01 million in 2020.

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-ne...wtab-en-us

What the article doesn't point out is that this is The Black Strat's second time breaking the world record for most expensive guitar ever sold.

This is the guitar used on most of Pink Floyd's best work: basically, every regular electric guitar part from Dark Side of the Moon to The Final Cut, with a few exceptions

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According to Gilmourish, the exceptions are:

1.  a few parts on "Money" and "Brain Damage/Eclipse" where he needed access to 24 frets and not the 21 the Black Strat has, 
   
2. "Dogs" and "Sheep" from Animals, 
   
3.  "Another Brick in the Wall" from the Wall (speciflcally the Solo from Part 2, and all of Part 3)
   
4. "Run Like Hell" and "Young Lust" from the Wall
   
5. "Two Suns in the Sunset" from The Final Cut. 
   
6. Any of the slide or acoustic parts. 
   

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