Haha... you keep doing that Thomas, just in case I weaken at some point!!
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This is just the contents of one rack. We needed to move some to my house to free up a room to manoeuvre the rest into the auction house lorries.
Even they didn't understand just how many there were, thought they'd get it all done in one day. Five lorries later...
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
Just as well he wasn't into railway engines!
Just as well he wasn't into railway engines!
Wish he'd been into collecting Rolexes!
It is a considerable number. I was thinking how many accordions the various dealers have in stock, and how many are typically sold per month. This lot of 800 must be a sufficiently large number to affect sales across the country?
Decent dealers sell accordions that have been recently tuned & serviced. I can't imagine many (if any) of the 800 would have been recently tuned & serviced...The price of that alone for 800 boxes will set you back a quarter million pounds. 
If anything, the dealers will be circling around Ross's like vultures in hopes of picking up cheap, slapping a 300% mark-up and selling on to unsuspecting buyers as "good condition".
Of the 800, there's a bunch of boxes with high historical interest (very rare and desirable by accordion collectors), a bunch of very high end golden era player boxes, and then, unfortunately, there would be a bunch of accordions that cost more to restore than they are worth restored (as is the case with 80% of stuff you see on ebays and etsies). So while the nominal number is 800, only a portion of them will be of interest to players.
If anything, the dealers will be circling around Ross's like vultures in hopes of picking up cheap, slapping a 300% mark-up and selling on to unsuspecting buyers as "good condition".
Of the 800, there's a bunch of boxes with high historical interest (very rare and desirable by accordion collectors), a bunch of very high end golden era player boxes, and then, unfortunately, there would be a bunch of accordions that cost more to restore than they are worth restored (as is the case with 80% of stuff you see on ebays and etsies). So while the nominal number is 800, only a portion of them will be of interest to players.
Fair points! Personally, I shall be checking the catalogue for a particular model, and may have a punt if there is one.
The biggest squeezebox event for me this year will be when I finally complete my own melodeon scratch build, but I've got a "nice to have" list in case anything comes up...Mrs won't let me buy more than a couple anyway.
I told her there's this Jerry guy on the Internets who has more accordions than me and I should be allowed more, but she didn't fall for it.
I told her there's this Jerry guy on the Internets who has more accordions than me and I should be allowed more, but she didn't fall for it.
Ventura
Been here for ages!
we always referred to this as taking the current buyers
off the market
"in-play" people: those who have already come to a decision
to buy now, and are just waiting for that final tipping point
(of time, opportunity, a good dealer/music store experience,
the right accordion)
once upon a time, the number of People/families shopping for
a Piano was rather high and a constant the retail industry
could hang it's hat on.. The primary thing a Music store had to
do was be competitive to have a reasonable and reliable
Market Share of this business
eventually that changed, and the Manufacturers realized
it was more than getting Market Share, but that the market
needed to be STIMULATED to increase the size of the "pie"
thereby increasing bottom-line cash flow and profit for everyone
currently, there are months where there are so many actually NICE
Acoustic Piano's being offered on Craigslist/marketplaces for free..
at this moment there are several Hamilton Studio piano's locally
(like Music schools would have used in Practice rooms)
and even a nice old Story and Clark baby grand..
these will "sell" and take people off the market if they spot them first
in the Accordion industry, very few people realized this as the
golden era came crashing down.. Faithe Deffner was one of the
few who put her money where her heart was and commissioned
serious compositions, sponsored and promoted competitive
events, and even underwrote scholarships and cash prizes
for decades as the rest of the industry simply went for each
others throats
yes, this auction will give anyone currently in the market
likely 10 winning bids for the same $$ as one retail purchase
and so i would imagine literally everyone currently in the market
will be taken off, and retail sales will slump for at least 3 months
at the same time, there is a very limited supply of collectors
who are liquid at any given moment and/or paying attention,
so there will no doubt be ample opportunity for a "steal"..
unless the auction house splits this up intelligently into
perhaps 6 separate auctions done over a period of a year
limiting each to like-type accordions rather than the broadcast
scattershot all things accordion it appears to be now
fortunately for me, i am to the point/age the only accordion i would
still buy today is something i tripped over, and it was one of the
very very few models on my short list of lifelong unrequited loves
In a similar situation... LOVE accordions, wish I could just fly over and choose a container full and ship them all back by boat, but for me to consider another accordion, it would have to be something SUPER SPECIAL to me and at an incredibly low price.
Short of that... I don't want anymore accordions.
So...are you going to be bidding on flutinas, concertinas and bandoneons then?
Good chance we have it.
My father in law wasn't just a collector, he repaired and serviced accordions sent to him from all over the country, granted he had slowed down considerably in his 70s.
None of the above, I'm basically a PA accordion man at heart.So...are you going to be bidding on flutinas, concertinas and bandoneons then?
Hello, me again! Had a meeting with the auction house today, and we're getting really close. Just finalising some details and getting someone to run their eye over the proposed catalogue, sort some marketing and we'll be good to hit the go button!
This is one room in the auction house, we ended up with a little over 750 accordions in total going to sale.
This is one room in the auction house, we ended up with a little over 750 accordions in total going to sale.
If that's 750 accordions, how many bandoneons and concertinas are there?
@Walker and I agreed that he buys all the PAs and I buy all bandos & 'tinas.
What is the auction format? Online only or online pre-bidding + live? Is there a minimum price limit for each lot?
Also, what's happening to the ones that don't get sold? Are they all going to get buried in an undisclosed location, like the ET video game cartridges?
@Walker and I agreed that he buys all the PAs and I buy all bandos & 'tinas.
What is the auction format? Online only or online pre-bidding + live? Is there a minimum price limit for each lot?
Also, what's happening to the ones that don't get sold? Are they all going to get buried in an undisclosed location, like the ET video game cartridges?
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That's just the first room, we've filled their downstairs warehouse.
I have the list, shows 14 concertinas/bandoneons but it felt like there were more. It'll be online bidding, there's too many total lots to do a live version. Said it would take them hours.
There are reserve prices on all items.
And good question. We're hoping anything of worth goes in the bidding window. We've nowhere to put the ones that don't sell. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it, hopefully empty handed.
I knew he had a lot of them, but there's 108 Hohners of varying models. Once I get the go ahead to share it, I will post it in it's entirety prior to the launch date.
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Looking forward to seeing the list!
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