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Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly - Just Strange'

Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood, some of it from a tree used for a lynching.

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