Roger Giffin is an English
luthier, sometimes referred to as "guitarmaker to the stars".
Notable guitarists who play his instruments include
Eric Clapton,
Pete Townshend
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,
John Entwistle,
Mark Knopfler
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, and
David Gilmour.
[ Giffin ran the Gibson Custom Shop for a while; one of the more notable guitars he built there was a copy of Jimmy Page's "No. 2", the basis for the Jimmy Page Signature model Les Pauls in the mid-1990s.]
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Guitar makers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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