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Article: Girls with guitars.
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- Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2007
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Byline: Terry Rombeck
Mar. 23--When Amy Trompeter started listening to Pink Floyd, she knew she had to play like guitarist David Gilmour.
She decided to take lessons. Two years and three guitars later, she still gets strange looks when people learn she plays.
"When people find out you play guitar," she says, "they don't expect much of you because you're a girl."
The 15-year-old student at Southwest Junior High School is trying to prove them wrong.
She and a growing number of girls are learning to strum rhythms and pick out melodies -- and guitar-makers are starting to cater more to them.
"I think it's a matter of ...