Garth Brooks' Takamine Guitar
date: label: date made
content: 1990
name: label: User
content: Brooks, Troyal Garth
notes: label: Description
content: This guitar was made by Takamine Gakki Ltd. in Nakatsugawa, Gifu, Japan in 1990. Takamine began as a small family company in the early 1960s. Artisan and master luthier, Mass Hirade joined the company in 1968 to help Takamine improve the overall quality of their guitars. Hirade strengthened the business and in 1975 partnered with the U.S. based company, Kaman Music Corporation, to begin exporting Takamine guitars internationally.
label: Description
content: This guitar, serial #90031116, was used by American country musician Garth Brooks for his first NBC-TV special, “This Is Garth Brooks,” at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas in 1991. During the taping of the program, Brooks and fellow musician Ty England smashed two guitars together on stage. Brooks’ guitar was reassembled and donated to the Smithsonian in 2007.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Music
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Troyal Garth Brooks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0208.03
label: serial number
content: 90031116
label: accession number
content: 2007.0208
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0208.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pearl (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: catgut (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 in x 15 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 104.14 cm x 40.3225 cm x 11.1125 cm