The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments ... when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar hanging in a pawnshop window in Downtown Los Angeles.

We wonder what our forebears would think of this guitar strummed with 1000 picks ... the underside of the strings and the… interesting acoustic result. As many pointed out in the comments ...

The superlative Gold Series welcomes the A-10 Cocobolo, a high-end grand auditorium cutaway that is all kinds of fancy ...