PRS Model 513 Named Best Electric Guitar Two Years in a Row

Press release
Source: PRS Guitars

Paul Reed Smith Guitars is again the recipient of a Musikmesse International Press Award (mipa). The PRS 513 model was the winner of the Best Electric Guitar of the Year for the second consecutive year. "No other guitar manufacturer has ever won the award twice for the same instrument in mipa's history," says Gitarre & Bass magazine editor Dieter Roesberg. Comprised of a voting panel of editors and journalists from 58 publications worldwide, mipa presents manufacturers with awards considered by many in the industry to be the "Grammy" of the musical instrument/pro audio industry.

The awards were presented to the winners at the special mipa-Party/Awards-Ceremony held during Musikmesse/ProLight & Sound on March 30, 2006, in Frankfurt, Germany. Mipa has honored esteemed musical instrument and equipment manufacturers for seven years and included more than forty different categories in 2006. PRS has been nominated as one of three contenders in the electric guitar category every year since the mipa award was created in 2000 and has received the Best Electric Guitar of the Year accolade five times, another feat that has never been accomplished by any other guitar manufacturer. Past PRS model winners include the PRS Singlecut in 2000, the Santana SE in 2002, the Santana II in 2003 and the 513 in 2005.

"I would like to thank all participating magazines from around the world for their support and confidence in us. It's a great honor to be the recipient once again of this prestigious award, especially since this is the first time the same guitar has won the award twice", says Peter Wolf, Director of Sales and Marketing at PRS Guitars. "In my opinion, it shows that the international press not only rewarded our unique level of quality and attention to detail but also awarded PRS' quest for innovation and further improvements in the guitar market, which in the end, benefit all guitar players. Congratulations to everyone at PRS Guitars, this is your reward."

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