Music Is Win's Tyler Larson plays Eric Clapton's 1954 'Slowhand' Strat before it goes to auction

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The guitar has an auction estimate of around $1.5 million

Ah the life of a hugely successful US guitar YouTuber… when auction houses call you up to come over and play Eric Clapton's 1954 'Slowhand' Strat before it's auctioned off on 25 November. Now the rest of us can experience the thrill of it vicariously through Tyler Larson's latest video for his Music Is Win channel. 

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According to the video, Clapton was the last person to play the hardtail Strat and Larson even gets to play it with one of Eddie Van Halen's guitar picks. And of course he plays Clapton classics Wonderful Tonight, Crossroads and Layla on it! 

Will the guitar actually fetch the $1.5 million Larson's title suggests? It's certainly possible after what we saw with David Gilmour's Black Strat last year.

Larson is certainly ticking off a guitar wishlist. He got to play a 1960 Gibson Les Paul last year too…

For more, check out Music Is Win's YouTube channel

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Reviews Editor, GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.