[KevWind]

As -muscmp- pointed out discussed previously in the Electric forum in June

Nothing has really changed the headline is prototypical "click bait". Take some stats that show a decline in sales and predictable adjustments , and predict doomsday demise. As prototypical the body of the article clearly does not support the headline

Apparently evn Gruhn himself the Nashville Dealer quoted in the W.Post. said he was surprised by the article.

After the article was published, Gruhn told a Nashville TV station that he was surprised by the Post’s take. New and used guitars are both available in abundance, which wasn't the case a couple of decades ago, he said.
“I would say that the guitar market is under stress from oversaturation. But by no means is the market for the guitar simply dying,” he said.