1.   A battered old guitar was his most treasured possession.

2.   An old guitar lay propped against a wall.

3.   Someone was plucking at the strings of an old guitar.

4.   And also, when needed, she can plug in the old guitar and we can trade off solos.

5.   Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

6.   Nearby, in the Rum Boogie Cafe, old guitars dangled from the ceiling like ghosts of music past.

7.   The little boy, who loves his old guitar, plays songs he heard on Memphis blues radio stations and mimics music swirling in the streets in his neighborhood.

8.   The old guitar, regrettably, became something other than a storehouse of memories, something other than a masterfully crafted musical instrument.

9.   The old guitar spent more time in its case, more time in the closet.