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mother of pearl is a comparatively expensive inlaying material for guitars, basses, and other string instruments. you can generally find it on the fretboard, the headstock, or the body, surrounding the soundhole. you will mostly find it in expensive instruments, such as Gibsons, martins, taylors and...
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mother of pearl is a comparatively expensive inlaying material for guitars, basses, and other string instruments. you can generally find it on the fretboard, the headstock, or the body, surrounding the soundhole. you will mostly find it in expensive instruments, such as Gibsons, martins, taylors and some other brands. it doesn't add anything special to the sound though.

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Fretboard or headstock or the body
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Mother of pearl refers to the inlays on a guitar. It could be on the fretboard, the headstock or the body. It can be very simple inlay markets to extremely
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