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I think it's the old saying about value and price. Added to that I'd say the material things I've valued the most have always been to do with their actual creative use. Not their features, not their potential but their actual creative use. Their price, from my Wiard system down to the scratchy nib pen I used for my manic illustrations, varies considerably.   

regards, Mark



----- Original Message ----
From: Gary Chang <gchang@calarts.edu>
To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 18 September, 2008 7:23:45 AM
Subject: [wiardgroup] Re: Legitimate Auction


I respectfully submit that the value in each and every musical device
is not the really relative to the "market value."

In 1996, I found and bought a Buchla Music Easel, which then cost at
that time around $5500.00 OVER the original asking price by Buchla in
the 70's. I paid this ridiculous price and played the Buchla for 5
years, and then sold it and got my money back. Was it worth it?

How do I value the musical experience that I had while owning this
device? Certainly WAY more than what the cost was.

I have since 2001 been acquiring and assembling a very large Wiard
Modular Music System. I have purchased several modules directly from
Grant, and a certain amount from former owners at higher prices when
the prices went up after Grant announced that 300 Series modules were
only special order items.

I play my system EVERY day. What I have gotten from Grant's modules
is MUSIC. Of course, I value this experience beyond what the "market
value" is.

So, that's my opinion - the value of a musical instrument is directly
related to the music you make with it. If you look at it this way,
how can you afford NOT to buy this stuff and get on with your life! 

Of course, if you are an "investor" - all I can say is that you can
make way more money investing in oil stocks rather than to drive up
musical instrument values so that you boast to your friends that you
have some rare EM device in your basement that you never use.

Of course, synths aren't the only musical objects subject to this - it
is why a mint 70's Strat coast $15-25,000.00 nowadays - (which is way
higher than most musicians can afford) - the tragic thing is that
these guitars aren't even being played.

Ok - I have stepped over the line - I apologize if I offended anyone
in my discourse. 

I am just saying is "the value is in the playing."

Not the collecting.

gary

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogro ups.com, "sascha victoria"
<sascha.victoria@ ...> wrote:
>
> yeah, took me about 4 years to commit. finally called up grant today and
> placed and order. check will be in the mail tomorrow. booya!
>