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Last Updated: Friday February 02 2007 14:10 GMT

In pictures: World's most expensive guitars

Some of the world's most expensive electric guitars

Some of the world's most expensive electric guitars have gone on show at the Born to Rock exhibition at a top London store.

One of the guitars being delivered

The guitars were delivered in a bullet-proof van under really tight security as some of them are worth tens of millions of pounds!!

Guitars

New guitars that have been customised by celebs like Bono and Jennifer Lopez are also on display. This one's been covered in hundreds of crystals especially for the exhibition.

Close up of a guitar

Wood from a steel works office and aluminium from a power station were used to make this guitar as a tribute to Sheffield's industrial past.

The Frying Pan guitar

This is the Frying Pan - the world's first electric guitar. It might look a bit tatty, but it's about 76 years old and this is the first time it's gone on show outside America.

Guitars on display

Guitars of big name rock stars like Noel Gallagher from Oasis, the Edge from U2 and the legendary Jimi Hendrix, who was really famous in the 1960s, are also on display until 3 March.



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