We wonder what our forebears would think of this guitar strummed with 1000 picks? [Mattias Krantz] wondered what the best number of picks was to play guitar and took the experiment to its ...

At $6.01m after fees, the guitar is the most expensive ever sold at auction, Julien's Auctions said. Bidding in Los Angeles opened at $1m and was won by Rode Microphones founder Peter Freedman.