Brian May's Signed Guitar

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Ended:December 11th 2022, 4:46pm EST

Winner: Newjunior

£3,750($4,683 USD)

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The Prize

This full-size BMG Special Guitar in Antique Cherry and is signed by Brian May!

Brian May donated this guitar to Small Steps Project to be added to their Christmas Auction. It comes with a Brian May Deluxe Padded Bag.

May was a co-founder of Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, having previously performed with Taylor in the band Smile, which he had joined while he was at university.

As a member of Queen, May became regarded as a virtuoso musician and he was identified with a distinctive sound created through his layered guitar work, often using a home-built electric guitar called the Red Special.

May wrote numerous hits for Queen, including "We Will Rock You", "I Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Too Much Love Will Kill You", and "The Show Must Go On".

Details:

BMG Special Guitar
Colour: Antique Cherry
Condition: New
Body: Acoustic chambered mahogany with bookmatched mahogany top
Binding: 6-ply pinstripe, front + back
Overall Length 98.8cm (38.9")
Body Length 40.63cm (16")
Body Width 35.67cm (14")
Body Depth 40mm (1.57")
Includes Brian May Deluxe Padded Bag
Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity

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The Cause

Small Steps Project is a children’s charity dealing with the most devastating humanitarian consequence of the global waste problem: child waste pickers.

All over the world thousands of children survive by collecting and recycling rubbish on landfill sites. Deprived of an education, they work when they should be at school and put their lives at risk on a daily basis. Work on the dumps is dirty and dangerous. As well as respiratory and skin diseases, cuts and lacerations to their hands and feet are commonplace and risk of infection is extremely high in the toxic environment.

Small Steps Project provides shoes to protect their feet and support to enable them to take small steps off the dump sites, out of poverty and into education.

To date, Small Steps Project has provided shoes and aid to over 20,000 children thanks to the money raised from shoes, all donated and signed by some of the most famous celebrities in the world.

Website

smallstepsproject.org

Item #P86377

In condition as donated.
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