Turning Gun into Guitar.

Posted by Alex in Music, Weapons & War on March 14, 2006 at 10:45 pm


Bogotá street musician César López was inspired by a rifle-carrying soldier when he created the escopetarra, a gun made into a guitar.

The first escopetarra — a combination of escopeta and guitarra, the Spanish words for rifle and guitar — was born a few months later.

The model was part Winchester, part Stratocaster, and all López. The 32-year-old musician has long been involved in efforts to use music to ease the pain of violence in this war-ravaged country.

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5 comments to "Turning Gun into Guitar."

  1. Senor Dilys
    March 15th, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    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

  2. Ravi
    March 15th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

    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

  3. Write Procrastinator
    March 16th, 2006 at 12:02 am

    I wonder what Jimi Hendrix would've thought of this?

  4. Alex
    March 16th, 2006 at 10:57 pm

    Thanks for the clarification, Senor Dilys and for the link, Ravi!

  5. antikriegsblog » Blog Archive » Gewehre zu Gitarren
    March 23rd, 2006 at 3:28 am

    [...] ‘’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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