Re: [Harp-L] Harmonicas Harmonicas Harmonicas

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

All these harmonicas are currently available for sale new.

You don't mention condition. If they are in good playing and cosmetic condition, try putting them on eBay . Make sure to describe them accurately and post good, well-lit photos that show all parts of the instruments and their cases.

You could establish starting prices of about 30% of street price (i.e. the actual price on offer from sellers, not the manufacturer's list price). You could also put a hidden "reserve" price in place to keep them from going too cheap.

Offering and final selling prices vary widely on eBay, depending on partly on number and pricing of similar items at the time, the mood of those looking, and who knows, the phase of the moon. What I've noticed, though, is that desirable items will be bid up competitively.
 
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
            Harmonica Basics For Dummies, ASIN B005KIYPFS
            Blues Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-1-1182-5269-7
Resident Harmonica Expert, bluesharmonica.com
Instructor, Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance


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 From: Rod Ford <rodford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 5:23 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Harmonicas Harmonicas Harmonicas
 
Hi
My brother Wayne who passed away some years ago, was in fact a bass player who worked with a well known Australian Harmonica player (in Australia at least) called Horrie Dargie.
My brother Wayne developed a passion for the harmonica which continued all through his life.
In this time he collected
2 x TOMBO  Dragon-Fly Contrabass Harmonicas,
1 x TOMBO Alto Pipe Horn (Electric with volume control)
1 x HOHNER Super 64 Chromonic
1 x HOHNER Super 64 X
1 x HUANG Professional 1248 (3 chromatic octaves)
1 x HOHNER Super Chromonica (Chromatic)
1 x TOMBO Lee Oskar

I have held onto all the instruments for nearly 10 years with the pipe dream that one day I may learn to use them myself. I have a small recording studio that I thought the harmonicas might "one day" might be used in.

However as a professional drummer of 40 years, I have realized that this is one "pipe dream" that in all probability is not going to happen.

I have toured with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel (Guitarists), Ebehardt Weber (german electric double bass), recorded with Tommy Emannuel (his first album called Pee- Wee Clarke and Friends) and Australian Jazz band called Galapogos Duck, and have a list of "pipe dreams" concerning only the drums, that would take 3 lifetimes to achieve.

In an effort to bring my "dreams" down to 2 lifetimes, I am now looking to sell these instruments, and would appreciate some feedback on what they are worth, and where the best place/places (including ebay), might be to sell them.

Rodney Ford