It had been sawed straight down the middle. My grandfather said, 'Good riddance, get it out of here' : Ben Harper's grandfather sold Woody Guthrie's wildly modded Martin on the cheap because he didn't know it belonged to the folk legend

Guthrie had tried to expand the acoustic to see what difference it made to the sound. Unfortunately, by the time Harper’s grandfather found out about the guitar's story, he had already sold it

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