The information hasn’t been all that rosy thus far in 2026, however we guarantee you, there’s loads of actually heartwarming issues nonetheless happening.

Like British amp model Victory sending a customized braille amp to blind guitarist and skateboarder Anthony Ferraro, who captured the second it arrived on his doorstep in what’s certain to be some of the healthful clips of the yr. And we’re simply 9 days in…

Within the video – posted to his Instagram web page, which boasts practically 430,000 followers on the time of writing – Ferraro will be seen bursting by the door holding a large Victory-branded field exclaiming: “I’m blind, what’s on this field?!”

“Dude, it’s an amp!” he yells, taking the white-finished combo amp out of its field to disclose its customized braille labels below every of the management knobs and on the routing data board on the again. “Are you kidding me? I’m gonna cry!”

A particular braille word addressed to Ferraro additionally got here within the field, which reads: “Expensive, Anthony… We heard you needed to strive a Victory amp. So we set ourselves a problem and got here up with this distinctive design only for you.”

“I believe that is the primary amp on this planet to ever do that,” Ferraro says. “Are you aware what number of occasions I’ve needed to ask a good friend, ‘Hey, what’s this management?’ That is probably the most superb amp I’ve ever touched and I can’t wait to play this.”

Barely capable of comprise his pleasure, Ferraro takes his shiny new amp to his jam room, plugging it into his PRS SE Silver Sky electrical guitar and impressively kitted out pedalboard, the place he showcases his enviable chops with a sequence of bluesy lead traces.

“[This is] fairly really one of many best issues I’ve [ever] been given,” he writes within the submit’s caption. “To say I cried after I opened it wouldn’t be a lie. I’ve been blind my entire life and music was one of many solely issues that made it really feel like I wasn’t blind… till I felt my gear or needed to ask somebody to assist me modify a knob or tune my guitar.

“After I felt the braille on this amp my entire world modified immediately. I used to be free to do it alone for the primary time ever. Advocating for braille has grow to be certainly one of my greatest passions in life. As precise firms start to take initiatives in accessibility it makes me suppose possibly it’s working… I can’t consider that is actual. Somebody pinch me.”

In a extremely appreciated remark (61,157 likes on the time of writing) below the video, Victory responds to Ferraro’s heartwarming video: “It means the world to us seeing you join along with your amp like this, Anthony. Thanks for letting us be a part of your journey.” Ferraro replies: “You truly modified my life. I don’t even know the way to say thanks sufficient.”

It’s moments like these that make us proud to be a part of the guitar neighborhood. Truthful play, Victory. Truthful play.

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Totally immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music expertise and manufacturing at college, and likewise written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Steel Hammer and MusicRadar.