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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2494.0. "Elvis' Martin" by CHEFS::IMMSA (adrift on the sea of heartbreak) Wed Apr 08 1992 07:36

    I see in Guitar Player this month that Elvis' Martin has sold for
    180,000 dollars to a London antique dealer.
    
    This must make it the most expensive Martin, if not any make, guitar
    ever mustn't it?
    
    andy 
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2494.1E::EVANSWed Apr 08 1992 08:256
Good photos of the Elvis Martin D-18 can be seen in The Ultimate Guitar Book.
I think that an Elvis Strat has sold for more that $180,000.

Jim

2494.2PAKORA::IGOLDIEEverybody wants someWed Apr 08 1992 08:365
    I would never have associated Elvis with a Strat,I never saw any
    pictures of him with one.
    
    
                                                Ian
2494.3GOOROO::CLARKI didn't inhaleWed Apr 08 1992 08:365
    hey, I found an "Elvis Gibson Moderne" in a crawl-hole in my cellar.
    It's dated April 30, 1958. Any idea what I can get for it? I was 
    thinking of asking $150.
    
    - Dave
2494.4PAKORA::IGOLDIEEverybody wants someWed Apr 08 1992 08:477
    $150 for something as acient as that,you must be think we're all mental
    or something.......................I'll give ya $100  %^)
    
    
    
    
                                                             Staynz
2494.5vote early & oftenEZ2GET::STEWARTthe leper with the most fingersWed Apr 08 1992 09:426
    
>	I think that an Elvis Strat has sold for more that $180,000.
    
    A strat?  Must've belonged to the young Elvis...
    
    
2494.6PHAROS::SAKELARISWed Apr 08 1992 11:169
    re .0 >>This must make it the most expensive Martin, if not any make, guitar
        ever mustn't it?
    
    
    Nope. Hendrix's Strat sold at a London Auction about 2 years ago for 
    $324,000. Some collector in Italy bought it. Mitch Mitchell, Jimi's
    drummer, owned it before that.
    
    "sakman"
2494.7what a spam head! 8)KURMA::IGOLDIEEverybody wants someWed Apr 08 1992 11:217
    the guy who bought Jimi Hendrix's strat got the rate of exchange
    between lire and pounds wrong and thougth he bought it for 18 thousand
    where as it was really 180 thousand.
    
    
    
                                               Ian
2494.8;^)AWECIM::RUSSOWed Apr 08 1992 12:147
    
    
    Elvis was playing my Tele the other day......
    
    How much do you think it is worth??
    
    Hogan
2494.9E::EVANSWed Apr 08 1992 14:004
Sorry for the confusion - it was *Hendrix's* strat.

Jim
2494.10purple houndogRICKS::CALCAGNImultiple sarcasmWed Apr 08 1992 15:331
    Elvis bought Hendrix's Strat!?
2494.11Honest!POBOX::PATLAElvis sells PATHWORKS at DEC!Sat Apr 25 1992 17:321
    He is really workin here in Chicago....