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Bogotá street musician César López was inspired by a rifle-carrying soldier when he created the escopetarra, a gun made into a guitar.
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Senor Dilys
Actually an escopeta is a smooth bore firearm, such as a shotgun, as I believe is shown in the picture. A rifle has rifling, i.e. grooves, inside the barrel, and that distinguishes it from a smooth bore firearm, or escopeta. See the following link.
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=escopeta
Ravi
This is strikingly different from a different guitar that was turned into a lethal weapon of uncommon destruction. See http://www.kerenmalki.org/Press/Press_Listing.htm
Write Procrastinator
I wonder what Jimi Hendrix would’ve thought of this?
[...] ‘’We found the worst human invention, which is the gun, and the most beautiful, which could be a guitar,’’ López said. “And in the end . . . the gun dies and the guitar is born.’’ via Neatorama: Turning Gun into Guitar. [...]
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