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Have you ever wondered what the world’s biggest guitar would look like? Now you can find out, as there is a new travelling exhibition dedicated to the instrument – ‘Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked The World’. The exhibition is currently at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, USA, featuring the giant Gibson guitar which is the world’s largest playable guitar certified by Guinness World Records. The giant Gibson ‘Flying V’ model guitar weighs 2,255-pounds and measures 43 feet long.

Also on display is the only playable 8-neck string guitar and rare instruments like a guitar inlaid with more than 230 pieces of gold. The exhibition runs till January 2015. Click here for more information. Check out some footage of the guitars:

In the hands-on gallery, you can:

• Strum the world’s largest playable guitar, a 2,255-pound, 43-foot long Gibson
• Test your musical memory by playing challenge riffs on a virtual fretboard
• Bang out a beat on a variety of wood types. Which sounds the best?
• “Freeze” a vibrating string using a strobe light
• Design your own dream guitar

The rare instrument exhibit includes over 60 remarkable instruments such as:

• Early Fender, Gibson, Ovation, and Martin guitars (from circa 1835 to present)
• A Ztar Z7S synthesizer guitar with a button for every fret and string – 204 in all
• The Rock Ock, the only playable guitar with 8 necks
• A stunning PRS Dragon guitar inlayed with 238 pieces of gold, red and green abalone; mother of pearl; and woolly mammoth ivory
• Guitars with outrageous paint jobs and shapes designed for rockers like Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist Randy Rhoads