The University of Chicago Magazine

August 1996

Would you buy a used guitar from this man?


George Gruhn looks at guitars as "specimens," and his Nashville store presents row after row of gleaming beauties, "evolutionary links in the history of the guitar and related instruments."

In the Key of G: Gruhn's Guitars, Inc., is a Nashville institution. The store and its mail-order business, owned by George Gruhn, AB'67, sell vintage guitars and instruments around the world.

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