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When he started eight years ago, Gordon Close sent out 15 to 20 guitars a year to troops. Last week he sent out 49.
Gordon Close plays one of his custom-made Harvest Guitars at his music store in Englewood, Colorado. He has sent 900 of them to our troops overseas and to injured veterans at home through his charity, Harvest Guitars for the Troops. (Courthouse News photo/Robert Kahn)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CN) What would you do with 1,000 guitars? Gordon Close, an 81-year-old jazz guitarist on the outskirts of Denver, is sending them to the troops overseas and to disabled veterans at home. He designed the guitars and had them built too. ....

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