this is the perfect fender stratocaster, you know? and the perfect...y this very guitar, or one very similar. david gilmour‘s guitar playing has featured on some of the biggest selling albums of all time. yeah. it's got it. it's just a beautiful instrument. now he's parting company with over 120 of his beloved guitars, almost his entire collection. many of them have given me the gift of a piece of music. it's time to move them on for someone else to enjoy them, someone else to have fun with them, create with them. at the same time as loving them, i consider that they are tools of the trade and i do also think that the sound is something that really comes from the fingers more than from the instrument. so it's not like you can buy one of these at the auction and sound like david gilmour? i'm afraid that's a theory that has been disproven so many times. the money raised from this extraordinary collection of music history will all be going to charity. matt everitt, bbc news. here is why unlike that story, pink floyd plasma trimmer, nick mason, went to my s