Here’s how it works. Shortly before his untimely death, Prince received a custom Purple Special guitar from Gus Guitars - he liked it so much, he commissioned luthier Simon Farmer to build him a bass ...

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“I wanted the bass to be an extension of the Purple Special, so I decided to create a special scratch plate using the same chrome-weave fabric and purple-candy paint as the guitar,” says Simon.

And these acoustic bass guitars look very nice indeed ... From those pictures we could swear that agreeably rich-coloured fingerboard was rosewood but it is purple heart, which matches the bridge. It ...

One guitar in particular, from the movie Purple Rain, was made by a man right here in Minnesota. "They call it the cloud guitar," Dave Rusan, who lives in Bloomington, said. Rusan, who owns Rusan ...