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'Rubber Soul' - The album that featured 'Norwegian wood', on which Harrison played his sitar for the first time in popular music.<br />
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The sitar guitar famously used for the first time by George Harrison on the Beatles' song Norwegian Wood has emerged for sale for £40,000.<br />
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The guitarist triggered the so-called great sitar explosion in rock 'n' roll of the sixties when he picked up the old Indian instrument in the Abbey Road recording studios.<br />
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The Fab Four had been looking for a different sound to the backing track for the song and Harrison remembered the sitar he had just picked up from a second hand shop.<br />
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The use of the sitar proved hugely popular and other artists began to follow suit. <br />
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The instrument is being sold by US auctioneers Nate D Sanders.