Came across this interesting article. I'm standing by waiting to see where it goes.
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nas...l?b=1267419600

Garry Chaffin bought his first Gibson guitar when he was 13 years old.

He worked all summer for his father before striding into a Cookeville store with $189, nearly all his earnings, and taking home his prize. He had no money for a case, and worried constantly about the instrument’s condition.

“I used to polish that thing every day,” Chaffin, 58, said, reminiscing in his Nashville law office on a recent afternoon.

The image of Gibson Guitar Corp. and other iconic companies, like the sheen of Chaffin’s first instrument, are subject to all sorts of threats. And the Nashville manufacturer has faced them from many directions in the past year — from the tough economy to scrutiny by federal authorities to accusations of price rigging.