What is peculiar about this item is that in most cases a glitch needs to occur for the player to be able acquire it. Though it is neither usable nor sellable to and by the player, it can be obtained without game modifications. Stalkers can often be seen playing guitars in camps, outposts, or other places of relative safety - usually by the fire.

The guitar is a string instrument widely used by stalkers of all factions throughout the Zone to play music and raise spirits in the morbid world that is the Zone.