Episode
How Do They Do It?: Circus, Guitars
Overview
How do they set up a 1,700 seat circus tent in just 36 hours, and how do they turn Japanese maple and mahogany into the coolest instruments on earth -...
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2011-12-01
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Circus, Guitars is Episode 14 in Season 8 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2011-12-01. The runtime is 22 min.
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