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Post by Kinkcan on Aug 15, 2008 16:23:44 GMT -5
I also sold one of my guitars, in fact my first electric guitar when I decided to buy a Fender Strat. A few weeks later, I wished I had kept it.
But 2 years later I entered a local music store and there it was ... hanging on the wall. I bought it back and paid less than what I got when I traded it !!!
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Post by ginnie on Aug 15, 2008 16:50:29 GMT -5
I also sold one of my guitars, in fact my first electric guitar when I decided to buy a Fender Strat. A few weeks later, I wished I had kept it. But 2 years later I entered a local music store and there it was ... hanging on the wall. I bought it back and paid less than what I got when I traded it !!! I have a similar story: I was moving away for awhile - sold my Hagstrom Bass and Yamaha Amp for $550. I had originally paid $300 for the bass and $750 for the amp - this was in 1976, Well, things didn't work out like I planned so I moved back home. Meanwhile the person I sold them to, my cousin, decided he didn't really want to play bass, so he sold them to a used music shop. I didn't know this. A few months after I got back I was passing said music store at a mall when I spotted my bass amp. I knew it was mine, because I had painted in big white letters "YAMAHA" down the one side. The price? $900 ! Darn! And just a couple of years ago I saw an ad for a bass like my old Hagstromm same year, same model, same colour, in the newspaper - price? $1900 ! Darn!
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Post by kinkfrank49 on Aug 15, 2008 23:16:31 GMT -5
I figured out a couple of years ago I could have put one of my sons through college with the money I would have if I had kept the guitars and amps I sold from 67 thru 73. They were all vintage Gibson and Fender guitars including a 1958 Full Scale Melody Maker, a 63 Strat, c1959 Jaguar, 1968 ES 335, 69 Hummingbird Acoustic, and three good Fender tube amps, a Super Reverb, Bassman, and Tremelux/Bandmaster bottom. I saw a 335 get $4800 by itself and the Melody Makers are all owned by collectors. But, I was young and engaged, and the marriage worked out, so no complaints. I have good guitars again, but miss those amps.
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Post by ginnie on Aug 16, 2008 0:09:03 GMT -5
I figured out a couple of years ago I could have put one of my sons through college with the money I would have if I had kept the guitars and amps I sold from 67 thru 73. They were all vintage Gibson and Fender guitars including a 1958 Full Scale Melody Maker, a 63 Strat, c1959 Jaguar, 1968 ES 335, 69 Hummingbird Acoustic, and three good Fender tube amps, a Super Reverb, Bassman, and Tremelux/Bandmaster bottom. I saw a 335 get $4800 by itself and the Melody Makers are all owned by collectors. But, I was young and engaged, and the marriage worked out, so no complaints. I have good guitars again, but miss those amps. That sure would be a fine collection! I'd love to have the ES335 amd tje Bassman. I've never been able to afford a 'great' guitar. Picked up a bargain once at a garage sale for $100 - a cheap no name bass, with a Gibson hardshell case and a Traynor YBA-2B bass tube amp or close to it. I figured the case alone was worth the money. The amp sounds great too when you play an regular electric guitar through it.
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Post by HollyH on Aug 20, 2008 14:29:57 GMT -5
Anybody know the John Hiatt song, "Perfectly Good Guitar"? I always enjoy this verse:
"It started back in 1963 His mama wouldn't buy him a new red Harmony He settled for a Sunburst with a crack But he's still trying to break his mama's back."
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