Definitions
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- noun A piece of flat material placed beneath the
strings of aguitar (or similar instrument) to protect the surface from beingscratched by aplectrum (or similar device)
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Examples
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Actually sir the pickguard is the original pickguard (originally transparent) installed on this tele, i just had it repainted to gold to add more accent.
TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician 2010
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I did request it with the silver hardware, and it came with a very nice bound pickguard which is easily removed.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I did request it with the silver hardware, and it came with a very nice bound pickguard which is easily removed.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Stratocaster vintage Fender guitars from mid-1959 have a celluloid "mint green" three layer pickguard which is white / black / white.
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Then bought a new pickguard and had the signed one framed.
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A few years ago, when Jonny Lang played at the Blues Festival, I got his autograph on the pickguard.
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It was a beautiful black Fender Telecaster with a white pickguard and a light maple fretboard.
My Black Guitar 2009
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I'm not totally crazy about the color combination - it's sort of Hendrix, who sometimes played a white Strat with a white pickguard, of course upsidedown and restrung.
What happens to your unpublished works after you die? frankwu 2007
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But I'm thinking of getting the pickguard replaced, which is really easy on Strats.
What happens to your unpublished works after you die? frankwu 2007
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This was the night that I played so hard and so free that I raked the fingernails off my hand and kept on going, staining the Telecaster's white pickguard with my blood.
My Black Guitar 2009
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