Archive PRS Guitars on Exhibit at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
1.12.06
(STEVENSVILLE, MD) January 11, 2007 — Paul Reed Smith Guitars celebrates and pays tribute to electric guitar history as part of “RockChic - The Life and Times of the Electric Guitar 1931-2006,” a dynamic multimedia exhibit currently on display at The Riding School, National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks until Sunday, January 21st, 2007. More than 50,000 people have visited the exhibit so far and thousands more are expected to attend before “RockChic” moves to Harrods in London for the month of February.
Ten archive Paul Reed Smith Guitars are on loan for the exhibition, including the First Bird Guitar (built in 1976 for Peter Frampton), Paul’s First Dragon (Paul Smith’s personal guitar for ten years - the first example of the current trademarked PRS headstock and the first dragon inlay), the Dragon I Prototype, the Santana Prototype and the blue Custom 22 once featured on the cover of Rolling Stone (hugged by Christina Aguilera). The collection also features instruments associated with rock’s greatest musicians, including the likes of Carlos Santana, Van Morrison and Jimi Hendrix.
Poa Jonas, the visual director for the exhibit, fashioned the display to purvey the energetic mojo of a live rock stage and to demonstrate how electric guitars have “rocked” our culture and our fashion sense. Patrons of the museum can take a walk though guitar history, following a path that features many rare and vintage guitars, including the ‘Frying Pan’, the world’s first electric guitar, never previously exhibited outside of the US.
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