Basicaly a good hurdy-gurdy from a good maker will either hold it's price . i hope yes lol... or when instrument is finish .often 1 year to...5!surprise!!!
sylvain ----- Original Message ----- From: JULIE BARKER To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 4:25 AM Subject: Re: [HG] hurdy gurdy resale value Hello Gabriel In answer to your question. Yes a good gurdy is a sound investment. Some years ago I was on the waiting list of one of Britain's leading makers but by the time I got to the top of the list my circumstances had changed and I could no longer afford the £1,700 it was going to cost. At the suggestion of the maker I sold my place on the waiting list, not for profit but to get my deposit back. The person I sold it to got a gurdy built to their own specifications within a month, and paid £200 less than it would have cost them for a new order; most makers generally honour the price at which you join the waiting list. Basicaly a good hurdy-gurdy from a good maker will either hold it's price or have a depreciation in value that is so small as to be not worth losing sleep over. Of course this advice only goes for "a professional quality instrument", not kit instruments and the kind of curiosities one often finds on ebay. Meanwhile, a friend of mine has a very fine Sam Palmer lute-back for sale [with hard case]. It has been used professionaly for some years and when I played it last week it played well. He is in London and South of England. Gabriel Orgrease <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the resale situation on a professional quality instrument? If we invest thousands to get one made by a luthier then decide that we do not want it (possibly we are totally inept as a musician but were too stubborn to realize that sooner) will it keep value, or will there be a drop in value, or will it be worth more than we paid for it? I get the impression that if one needs to wait a year to have a nice one made that to resell it folks might be kind of happy and anxious to pay something for the time saved. Back to the car analogy, when you buy any car it is worth less than you agreed to pay once you leave the car lot. It is also my impression that the more one can afford to purchase an expensive car the more likely that either 1) they don't drive very well or 2) they have enough money for a driver. Is a quality gurdy a sound investment? [pun intended] thnx, Gabriel Philip G Martin aka Drohne www.drohne.co.uk
