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Dear Friends and Valued Customers, We are thrilled to announce the launch of our redesigned website, a project we’ve poured our hearts into over the past year. Our goal has been to ensure that your online experience reflects the exceptional in-store atmosphere that our customers have come to know and love. What’s New? We’ve worked…

Gibson Guitar Serial Number Look-Up So you have a vintage Gibson guitar in your possession? Wonderful news: Gibson guitars from the 1920s through the 1970s are not only national treasures, they can sell for large sums of money due to high-demand by musicians and collectors alike. Here at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, TN, Music…

How to Read Martin Guitar Serial Numbers So you have a vintage Martin guitar in your possession? Wonderful news: Martin steel string flat-top guitars from the 1930s through the 1960s are not only national treasures, they can sell for large sums of money due to high-demand by musicians and collectors alike. Here at Carter Vintage…

Reading Fender Guitar Serial Numbers So you have a vintage Fender guitar in your possession? Wonderful news: American-made Fender guitars from the 1950s through the 1970s are not only national treasures, they can sell for large sums of money due to high-demand by musicians and collectors alike. Here at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, TN,…

Carter Vintage is up for BEST PLACE TO BUY NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS and BEST PLACE TO BUY USED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS in the Nashville Scene’s Best of Nashville 2024! We’d love if you’d consider voting for us in these two categories! Voting for the Readers’ Poll is ongoing now and ends September 4, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CST. To vote,…

One of two guitars he left behind. It’s a Mike story. It’s a story that’s so crazy that when you think about it, only Michael Bloomfield could be the main character in it. In 1974 Michael, and some of his friends, were asked to play on a PBS TV special featuring Muddy Waters, Junior Wells,…

Hold the presses, have we got an update for you! A few weeks ago we listed a gorgeous 1960 burst brought to us by the original owner’s family. We called it the, “Barn Burst” because it was literally a barn find. The guitar features a cool ice tea fade to the top and the killer…

Have you ever had a long standing belief challenged? It occurred to me that until last Wednesday one of my longest standing beliefs may not be true. For all the sixty six years that I’ve been on the planet I’ve had a very specific belief about my mom and that belief went like this: My…

June 14, 2024. Today was a rough day, a roller coaster of emotions. I had to venture back to the bathroom at the shop a couple of times to get myself together. A friend of mine at the shop asked me if I was ok? I told them I was okay, just having some big…

A few weeks ago, we listed a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard. It was an incredible burst. Long story short… that guitar sold a matter of hours after we listed it! Out of the blue, the day after that first ’60 burst sold, another 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard showed up at the shop. I…