In this paper ‘Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities‘ we explore why people relic guitars and what if they could tell their own life stories.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the following grants: Horizon: Trusted Data-Driven Products (EP/T022493/1), EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Horizon: Creating Our Lives in Data (EP/S023305/1), Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship in Somabotics: Creatively Embodying Artificial Intelligence (APP22478); and PETRAS 2 (EP/S035362/1) the EXIoT project.