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The Recycled Resonator Guitars |
Sale of unheardof instruments are negotiated initially by email contact at 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. Bids can be withdrawn freely if you have changed your mind, or can't afford it at the time it is offered for sale, for any reason so don't feel like you are committed to purchasing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, whatever. I will make an effort to write back to you. The items for sale are mostly on display at Happy High Herbs Nimbin shop at the moment; There are three basses for sale; a beaten but functional indo Ibanez P-Bass $85, a Conora vintage all mahogany japanese 70's 4-string $350 and a Rock Axe 5-string in red $250. I also have student instruments; Viola and Violin from $60 (full. 1/2 and 3/4 sized,) acoustic/electric steelstring cutaways with pickups $160, unused strat copies from $175/$295 supered up, drumsticks $6, harmonicas $12, straps $7, nylon wound bass string sets $25, new black pocket trumpet $265, euphonium $165, King alto $700, Armstrong alto $750, J Micheal alto with Selmer c* mouthpiece and Rovner ligature $700 all working well (no leaks,) and lots of other things like drum bits and what my wife calls 'musical junk' and I can get just about anything else you might be after of a musical nature. Things for auction: Birtha the Bass Banjo, best offer so far; $0 The rough looking classical twin resonator $0 The six string bass $0 The cornerpiece art deco 50W 15" sub bass box with matching amp $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: 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 missile head timpani and bazooka didj now! These mouth harps are the easiest to play because they don't need to be put against the teeth and they have the best sound and the longest sustain of any I have seen. Top quality professional sound. I am proud to stock them. The prices are for postage within Australia. O.S. extra.
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, services of various descriptions and parts of other strange instruments etc. as part trade. 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. |
