03/20/2026
"We're sure a lot of you heard about the Black Strat selling for $14,550,000 at Christies auction last week, shattering the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold at an auction.
But what you might not know is that, in 1979, Gilmour's personal guitar tech, Phil Taylor, swapped in Seymour Duncan Custom Staggered Strat pickups into the guitar . . ."(from a Seymour Duncan post made today).