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 Bids can be withdrawn freely if you have changed your mind, or can't afford it at the time it is offered for sale, for any reason, so don't feel like you are committed to purchasing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 and the instrument is set up to your specifications.
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. It seems people find this a bit confronting somehow and in the past few years not a single bid has arrived so if you are one of these people, feel free to buy via the shopping cart for what I would like to get for it, I will add more of them onto the cart as time permits.
Feel free, even encouraged, to offer comments, suggestions, ask questions, get advice, share ideas of what a fantasy instrument might look or sound like to you, suggest sites to add to the links page, whatever. I will an effort to write back to you and love to do so.
The items for sale at the moment are mostly on display in Lismore at Russels Music .
There are some basses for sale; a black, red or blue Ashbory Bass ;$360,
A really nice fretted 4 string clear finished bass chrome hardware, P/J pickups, alder body F style maple neck with rosewood fretboard. $450.
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.
I also have access to Viola and Violins from $60 (full. 1/2 and 3/4 sized student models.) There are lots of nice drums I have skinned up; djembe's, bugarabu, and dun duns as well as other percussion bits; m'bira, shakers, samba whistles, cymbals and plenty of what my ex called " musical junk." I can get just about anything you might be after of a musical nature at a good price so let me know if I can help find what you seek.
There are lots of electric guitars from $250 to $650 including a 9 string all tweaked and supered up for which I am making a special frankenstein guitars page for at the moment which will grow more than what is up so far.
Drumsticks, harmonicas $12, straps $7, nylon wound bass string sets $25, Armstrong alto $750, tuners $15, picks 2 for $1...
All the different jaw harps / jews harp / juice harp / mouth harp / kubing / moorchang / n'cas / maultrommeln / trumps / trompen / dan moi / (Whatever you like to call them) have their own page if you want to see pictures and read about the entire range and to hear sound samples.
They are all of exceptional sound quality and are very easy to play. Follow this link to see pictures and descriptions of them:
These are all proper musicians ones, not the usual novelty ones you find in the average music shops. They all sound great and play well and are made beautifully. 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 WW1, 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!
BEST OFFERS SO FAR ON THE UNHEARDOF INSTRUMENTS;
The six string bass $375
The 18" double bass banjo; $1000
The resonator bass/cello; $0 swap for a Conklin 7 string active bass on the cards
The 24" double bass banjo; $2850 is the best offer so far from Bradfield Dumpleton in Tassie which I would have accepted at the time...(not sure what happened there)
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
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...
