1.   According to stories, he traded either a pistol or a farm wagon for his first guitar, which was owned by his stepfather, Willie Strevel.

2.   He inherited his first guitar from his grandfather, a spiritualist minister.

3.   His ailments led to his first guitar.

4.   His father was a Bob Wills and Willie Nelson fan who handed him his first guitar when he was six.

5.   His Sunday school teacher showed him his first guitar chords.

6.   No one is quite sure of the whereabouts of the first Candelas guitar, because Porfirio and the elder Candelario Delgado promptly sold it.

7.   Schreiner teared up at the first guitar chord reverberating through the sound system and softly cried through the song.

8.   Lennon obtained his first guitar while struggling to set up a group with fellow art student Stuart Sutcliffe before the Beatles were formed.

9.   She said her father had taught Bob Marley to play guitar and had made him his first guitar.