Kurt Cobain’s Fender going to auction

[Spectrum]

Yesterday's news, The New York Times: Pink Floyd guitar Is sold for a Record $14.55 Million. The black Fender Stratocaster, played by David Gilmour on six of the band’s albums including “The Dark Side of the Moon,” broke the record for the most expensive guitar sold at auction. The Black Strat was sold on Thursday to an online bidder in a 21-minute bidding war, said Angela Montefinise, a spokeswoman for the auction house Christie’s, which ran the sale. The price broke a previous record of $6.01 million, which was set in 2020 by the buyer of the Martin D-18E (a rare, left-handed 1959 acoustic-electric guitar) that Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” performance months before his death.

And a piano played by John Lennon only sold for £2.5, Gilmour more popular it seems.

[Bayleaf]

And a guitar takes up less space!

[Hotrodder]

I owned the same model of Fender Stratocaster. I bought it new in 1964 for $289.50. At the time they were all built in Fullerton, Calif. a short drive from where I lived. I resprayed the three guitars in our band and took them to Fender to have my reassembly verified and alignment checked. An amazing place that impressed me by their personal attention.

[curtis]

What style of music were your band playing back then?

[Hotrodder]

Pretty much a mixture of R&B, Blues, Surf Music, and a feeble effort at Beatles.