On January 22, 1988 King of Australian Country music Slim Dusty and then head of NSW Tourism commissioner Paul Crombie unveiled a 12 metre high, fiberglass golden guitar.
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Thirty years on the guitar is still one of the most photogenic icons in Tamworth.
The guitar was built by Warwick Bennet and Max Ellis, who say they would have a very large pile of cash if they had 10 cents for every time a photo was taken at the statue.
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"Of course it's only a guestimate but since we opened the Big Golden Guitar 30 years ago, we estimate there could have been more than a million pictures taken of our baby."
Modelled on the already famous Golden Guitar trophies from the Country Music Awards the guitar was made by in Tamworth by Len Surtees following a design by Harry Frost.
And, to answer one of the biggest and most asked questions – “why hasn’t it got strings?”. It’s because it’s a facsimile of the cast bronze trophy which doesn't have strings.
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