In July, Taylor Clark, a music education major at Kansas State University, was named Miss Kansas. Clark is using her year of service to communicate the importance of music education programs to the masses, facilitate challenging conversations harnessing the power of music, and plans to create future generations of music makers as a teacher.

Musicians love their instruments. Perhaps there’s no better demonstration of this fact than the love that musicians have for their guitars. From Eddie Van Halen’s “Frankenstrat to B.B. King’s “Lucille” and Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger,” the guitar is often an extension of the musician as a beloved family member.