Gruhn Guitars Suffers Water Damage

Gruhn Guitars, which features a large collection of vintage instruments, survived the recent Nashville flooding only to suffer water damage due to a burst pipe on the second floor of their downtown Nashville location. Dozens of instruments sustained damage including some vintage instruments. News station WKRN reporting on the damage:

"Some of these were very good instruments," [Gruhn] said. "This was not a couple dozen cheap, student model guitars. This was a couple dozen good ones."

Some of those guitars are irreplaceable, vintage instruments.

"It's emotionally tough," said Gruhn. "These instruments are things that I view as though they were alive. They have soul and personality, and they have history."

Very sad to hear. Gruhn's has a well-respected staff of instrument repair technicians, so I hope they are able to return these instruments to their prior glory.