The last guitar played by Kurt Cobain goes on display at the Royal College of Music as part of a new exhibition about the Nirvana frontman. Lead curator of the exhibition, Alan Di Perna, says "the guitar is a bit of an outcast like Kurt".
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00:00The D-18E was not a successful model for Martin.
00:06Only 302 were ever made, which makes this an exceptionally rare instrument.
00:11Of the 302, we don't know how many survived, but it wasn't too many.
00:16So for Kurt Cobain to wander into a guitar shop on Sunset Boulevard
00:20and light upon this guitar, which is not a well-known model at all,
00:26and adopt it, make it his own.
00:28Of course, he was a left-handed player, so they had to make some modifications.
00:33It's a right-handed guitar, so they had to make some modifications
00:36so that he could play it.
00:39And the way I look at it is the guitar is a bit of an outcast like Kurt.
00:44It wasn't a popular instrument in its time.
00:47This is only the seventh one to roll off the assembly line,
00:50so it's a pretty early one.