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Taylor Swift, Bradley Cooper guitars to be auctioned for Nashville Covid-19 relief

 An employee of Christie's auction house holds a guitar used by singer Taylor Swift that will go up for sale [Photo: Carlo Allegri]

Taylor Swift, Bradley Cooper and Keith Urban have donated guitars to a celebrity country music auction to raise funds for everyday workers in the industry whose livelihoods have been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Swift’s signed black Gibson acoustic guitar that she played for the live debut performance of her new song “betty” in September, comes along with nine of the singer’s custom picks in a lot that could fetch $25,000 to $40,000, Christie’s auction house said on Thursday.

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