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Selling a Fender Squier Stratocaster electric guitar in excellent condition, complete with a compact Vox headphone amplifier, Yamaha headphones, a good guitar case, a capo, an Aux cable with two mini-jack -> jack adapters, and a pair of picks. The amplifier has three gain modes, several echo modes, three adjustments (gain, tone, volume), an input jack, an...