Paul Reed Smith "Dragon 2000" Electric Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1999
name: label: maker
content: Smith, Paul Reed
notes: label: Description
content: This electric guitar, serial #9 41200, was made by Made by Paul Reed Smith (PRS Guitars) in Annapolis, Maryland in 2000. It is a Dragon 2000 model with a dragon inlay on the guitar body made of 242 pieces of mastodon ivory, rhodonite, agoya, coral, onyx, sugilite, chrysacola, red, green, and pink abalone and paua. This is from a limited production run of 50 guitars.
label: Description
content: When he started building his instruments, Paul Reed Smith was steeped in the traditions of the classic electric guitars of the 1950s and 1960s. Ted McCarty, the past president of Gibson and designer of the Les Paul model, was his mentor. In 1994, Paul Reed Smith's company, PRS Guitars, launched the McCarty model as a tribute to this electric guitar pioneer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Maryland, Kent Island, Stevensville
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Levin Family/Washington Music Center and Barnes & Thornberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0074.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0074
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0074.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 98 cm x 34 cm x 6 cm; 38 9/16 in x 13 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in