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The Greek Refugee Who Built Paul McCartney’s Favorite Guitar

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A Greek family fled Ottoman persecution in 1903 with nothing but their tools. The father filed his first US patent before he was even a citizen. His son built it into a company that went to war with Gibson — and created the guitar John Lennon played at the Beatles’ final concert. The Stathopoulos family story is one of the most remarkable in American music history — and almost nobody knows their name. ????????????
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