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| Strings West owner Larry Briggs has been buying and selling vintage guitars longer than just about anyone within a five-state area. He makes selling your used or vintage guitar painless, and often travels hundreds of miles just to personally inspect a piece and complete a transaction. Many folks go to the internet unnecessarily to attempt selling a guitar when they can get just as much money from Strings West with absolutely no hassle, and no check to cash. Larry Briggs has been active in the music business since 1970, when he and his father opened a used guitar shop in rural Tulsa County, Oklahoma. In 1974 he purchased a music store in Tulsa, and proceeded to combine his extensive collection of old and rare instruments and amplifiers with the existing new inventory. Larry was one of the few people in the Southwest dealing in vintage guitars during this time period, and his reputation grew rapidly. Strings West became an oasis of old, rare, and new merchandise. Larry was appointed to the dealer advisory board of Guitar Player Magazine, and served thereon for many years. He sold guitars to many of the super groups of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and Strings West became a regular stop for stars such as Billy Gibbons, Ted Nugent, Vince Gill, Neil Schon, and many others. In 1988, Larry co-authored “Guitars, Guitars, Guitars”, a reference bible used extensively in the vintage guitar business. In 1978, Larry
traveled to Dallas to participate in the very first national guitar show.
In 1984, he joined forces with two partners to form Texas
Guitar Shows, Inc. (Four Amigos Productions).
Their first show was a highly successful event held at the Tulsa
Convention Center. The Amigos have
produced over eighty guitar shows
since that humble beginning. Larry
is owner of Tex*US Guitar Shows, Inc.,
and since 1993 has held four annual shows in various venues in the Los
Angeles and San Francisco areas.
He is also co-owner of the fabulous Arlington,
Texas show (world’s largest vintage event).
The Amigos also promote shows in Austin,
Minneapolis, and Chicago.
All Amigo shows have been co-sponsored by Vintage
Guitar Magazine. Visit www.texasguitarshows.com
for more information. In 1999, Larry opened the Oklahoma Guitar and Cowboy Museum in his home town of Sperry, a community of some 1000 citizens about 10 miles north of Tulsa, on the border of the Osage and Cherokee nations. The museum is open by appointment. Founded in 1902, Sperry was an oil boom town with large dairy, beef, horse, and grain operations nearby. Larry is in the process of restoring several historic buildings on the town square. They include a drugstore, filling station, grocery store, barber shop, automobile garage, and post office. If you want to sell a guitar or just want to access thirty-some years of guitar and amp knowledge, please call Larry at 1-800-525-7273. Thanks for visiting our web site.
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