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The `I Want to Buy Something' Page
This page has an irregularly updated list of things which I have for sale and a record of bids which people have made so far for the unheardof instruments. Sale of unheardof instruments are negotiated initially by email contact: ron*unheardofinstruments.com (just put in a @ instead of the *) and the offering of bids as per an auction. So feel free to make a speculative bid on what you think the instrument might be worth to you. I am not going to be insulted by low bids because I am generally very easy to bargain with and want to know what you think a bargain price would be. Bids can be withdrawn freely if you have changed your mind, or can't afford it at the time it is offered for sale, for any reason so don't feel like you are committed to purchasing it by bidding as the negotiations aren't over until you have had your first lesson. I am primarily interested in what kind of prices the general public might offer for these things before I start making or buying any more. Feel free, even encouraged, to offer comments, suggestions, ask questions, share ideas of what a fantasy instrument might look or sound like to you, point me in the direction of interesting sites,suggest sites to add to the links page, want to ask me out, whatever. I will make an effort to write back to you and love to do so. The items for sale are mostly on display at Happy High Herbs Nimbin shop at the moment; There are some basses for sale; a black and a red, blue and a black Ashbory Bass $535 now $435, a really nice pair of natural finish fretted basses, one gold J has sold and one chrome hardware P/J. $450 each. A black Ibanez P-bass body with a fender style Eden neck and fender pickups; $375. A Canora 30y.o Japanese P/J Bass in all mahogany, very nice $500. Photos coming... I also have access to Viola and Violins from $60 (full. 1/2 and 3/4 sized student models,) a very nice sounding and setup acoustic/ electric steelstring cutaway with magnetic pickup and great pre-amp $350, sold. lots of electric guitars from $250 to $495 all tweaked and supered up drumsticks $7 harmonicas $12, straps $7, nylon wound bass string sets $25, an old euphonium $125 sold, Armstrong alto $750, tuners $15, picks $1, all the different jaw harps and mouth harps are on display (see the link to their own page below to see pictures and read about the entire range and to hear sound samples) and lots of nice drums; djembe's, bugarabu, and dun duns as well as strings, m'bira, percussion bits and even `musical junk.' I can get just about anything else you might be after of a musical nature at a good price so let me know if I can help. I recently got a Hungarian Cittern, a lovely thing; $325. sold There is an awesome 9 string tele in there too $500
BEST OFFERS SO FAR; The six string bass $0 The 18" double bass banjo; $1000 The resonator bass/cello; $0 The 24" double bass banjo; $2850 is the best offer so far from Bradfield Dumpleton in Tassie which I will probably accept when I see the readies... The 5 string bass; $0 The hi-fi steelstring ganja resonator $0 The Rosewood Ashbory $0 The 5 string electric violin $0 The banjo cello $0 either 8 string fretless bass $0 I often have stock of excellent jews harp / jaw harp / mouth harp / kubing / moorchang ; They are all of exceptional sound quality and are very easy to play. Follow this link to see pictures and descriptions of them: mouth-harps page. I am proud to stock them. Brass for the above came from recycling old U.S. ordinances (of which more were dropped on Vietnam than were dropped by both sides combined in WW2and WW2, some seven million tonnes in all!) so you too can be a part of what should be a growing industry of turning armaments into instruments. I want my bazooka didj now!
Speculative bids may include local L.E.T.S., objects offered in exchange, promises of services, or anything you consider to be of a certain value and feel free to be imaginative. Past buyers have offered broken guitars, old speakers, pieces of wood, car parts, seedlings, san pedro cuttings, massages, services of various descriptions and parts of other strange instruments etc. as part trade or exchange. As these are a very close-knit family of instruments my priority pricing strategy entails preferential treatment to friends and locals as then I might see the instruments again so I hope you will be understanding in the event that you are out-bid on your dream instrument by such a person at any moment at a lower price. Bidding does not guarantee an offer at that price again should you refuse an offer. Feel free to make offers (and get a bargain price) on any unfinished instrument if you don't mind sanding and painting it yourself or feel you have the required time and skill to finish it, can co-opt bits of it into an existing project or would prefer it unfinished, whatever. I am open to negotiations of almost all kinds. Thanks for visiting the site and getting right down to the small print in this little corner down here in the back annals of cyberspace, Be good to one and all and especially kind to the planet and may the rest of your journey be an inspiration to you. Be in love. Must get back to work... |
