Scott Chinerys Guitar Collection Scott Chinery was best known as the owner of one of the worlds most impressive and extensive guitar collections. But his greatest accomplishment wasnt the fact that he acquired more than 1,000 instruments-his foremost achievement was making the general public realize that the guitar is a work of art and an important icon of American culture. Scott worked ardently to elevate respect for guitars and to make Americans realize that the guitar was a valuable national treasure. Perhaps his most significant contribution was inspiring the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of American History to devote an exhibition to the American guitar. But that was just one of many accomplishments Chinery achieved. He also loaned his instruments to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar exhibit, sponsored numerous guitar shows where he displayed his instruments, provided his guitars to Steve Howe and Martin Taylor to record their duet album Masterpiece Guitars, and shared his collection with everyone in the book The Chinery Collection.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 01:53:03 +0000
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