{"id":792483,"date":"2019-01-29T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=785547"},"modified":"2019-01-29T07:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:01:05","slug":"david-gilmour-to-auction-famed-black-strat-and-other-guitars-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/david-gilmour-to-auction-famed-black-strat-and-other-guitars-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour to Auction Famed \u2018Black Strat\u2019 and Other Guitars for Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, David Gilmour<\/a> will be auctioning more than 120 of his guitars, including many of his signature instruments. The most notable instrument in the lot is the Black Strat, the 1969 Fender that Gilmour bought at Manny\u2019s in New York City and used to record everything from Pink Floyd<\/a>\u2019s Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> to his recent solo recordings and touring, including his jaw-dropping performance in Pompeii. It\u2019s expected to go for between $100,000 and $150,000. The instrument, with the many modifications Gilmour made to it, is so legendary that there\u2019s a book devoted to it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The auction will take place at Christie\u2019s in New York, which is calling it the \u201clargest and most comprehensive collection of guitars to be offered at auction,\u201d on June 20th. Proceeds will benefit charitable causes.<\/p>\n

Other notable instruments in what Christie\u2019s has dubbed \u201cThe David Gilmour Guitar Collection\u201d include a white Stratocaster, circa 1954, with the serial number #0001 (played on \u201cAnother Brick in the Wall (Part 2)\u201d) and a 1958 Gretsch Penguin. Both are expected to go for between $100,000 and $150,000. He\u2019s also auctioning the red 1984 Strat he played during Eighties and Nineties ($15,000 \u2013 $25,000), a 1969 Martin D-35 ($10,000 \u2013 $20,000) and a 1955 goldtop Les Paul ($30,000 \u2013 $50,000). There are also a number of less famous guitars going to auction with estimates for as little as $300.<\/p>\n

The collection will launch at Christie\u2019s London showroom on King Street and be on view from March 27th to the 31st. It will then go to Los Angeles for a showing between May 7th and the 11th with a final chance for people to see the instruments in New York between June 14th and 19th.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese guitars have been very good to me and many of them have gifted me pieces of music over the years,\u201d Gilmour said in a statement. \u201cThey have paid for themselves many times over, but it\u2019s now time that they moved on. Guitars were made to be played and it is my wish that wherever they end up, they continue to give their owners the gift of music. By auctioning these guitars, I hope that I can give some help where it is really needed and through my charitable foundation do some good in this world. It will be a wrench to see them go and perhaps one day I\u2019ll have to track one or two of them down and buy them back!\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rolling Stone<\/em>, Gilmour said that people should not interpret this auction as any indication of retirement. \u201cRetiring is not a hard and fast thing for me in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t really have to retire. I don\u2019t have to say those words. I don\u2019t have to state that have retired or anything like that. If I retire, it will be a quiet, unnoticeable process at some point. But I\u2019m not at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This summer, David Gilmour will be auctioning more than 120 of his guitars, including many of his signature instruments. The most notable instrument in the lot is the Black Strat, the 1969 Fender that Gilmour bought at Manny\u2019s in New York City and used to record everything from Pink Floyd\u2019s Dark Side of the Moon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:03:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}