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A former six-metre Gold Guitar promotional sculpture that once stood on Gore’s main road to advertise the town’s country-music awards.
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Old Gold Guitar – Gore
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Approximate location · 46.100° S, 168.940° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
Gore's original giant guitar was put up on Trade Me.
The six-metre sculpture once stood in the centre of town on the main road, advertising the Gold Guitar Awards – the national country music competition that has run in Gore since the 1970s and made a Southland town of twelve thousand the genre's capital. It was created by the sculptor Erroll Allison, the same man who made Gore's leaping brown trout just under fifty years ago, which gives one artist responsibility for both of the town's defining objects.
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The old Gold Guitar was a six-metre roadside sculpture created by Gore sculptor Erroll Allison that once stood prominently on Gore's main road, advertising the town's country-music awards. It is distinct from the current 7.5-metre Hands of Fame guitar, erected in 2004.
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Historical/non-visitable record. The sculpture is no longer displayed in its former public location and its private storage location is not a visitor destination.
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