Seems fair to me, Alfonso. Everything is expensive, but your asking
price is fair.
Rob
2009/2/15 Alfonso Marin <[1]luten...@gmail.com>
Dear Arto and all,
After the brief discussion about theorbo prices, I looked around for
of other makers prices to reevaluate the worth of my theorbo by Nico
van der Waals I am currently offering for sale for 7900 (original
price was 8250 back in 2002). I am now certain that my asking price
is quite fair for such a reputable maker and for an exceptionally
good sounding instrument in mint condition.
These are examples of similarly decorated instruments taken from up
to date prices of three good makers including a Kingham case. I do
not have information about Paul Tomson and Michael Lowe but I know
these are much more expensive and their waiting list is even not
considerable if you need an instrument in the near future.
Stephen Barber 7,777
Stephen Gottlieb 9,105
Grant Tomlinson 9800 US $ = 7,604 + 390 Kingham case = 7994 (last
years price)
I know that Arto did not want to suggest that my theorbo was too
expensive but in an indirect way he actually did. For that reason I
feel compelled to defend myself and demonstrate the fairness of my
asking price.
Greetings,
Alfonso
On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:20 AM, [2]wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote:
On 2/13/2009, "Alfonso Marin" <[3]luten...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am offering my Theorbo by NIco van der Waals for sale.
..
Selling price is 7900 .
The instrument really looks very beautiful!
But is this really the price level of today? 7800 euros for a
quality
theorbo?
In that case I am a rich man!
On the other hand we lutenists have been happy for years for the
prices
of our instruments - just take a look to all others, even to modern
guitarists ordering hand made instruments...
Happily I've bought my instruments in the times that were not so
good to
luthiers! ;-) Best wishes to Stephen B. and Sandy! ;-))
Arto
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