8 Cây Đàn Guitar Acoustic Đắt Nhất Thế Giới

The world's most expensive acoustic guitars have played a big part in the history of modern pop and rock music. For those who can afford them, the price tag is insignificant compared to owning an instrument that has been played in the most iconic songs.

The most expensive classical guitars have fetched several hundred thousand dollars, and these acoustic guitars sell for millions of dollars.

1. MARTIN D-18E KURT COBAIN: $6,000,000 - 2020

While buyers of expensive guitars like this often ask to remain anonymous, Australian entrepreneur Peter Freedman did the exact opposite: Peter bought Kurt Cobain 's Martin D-18E with purpose of attracting public attention.

“I wanted to shed light on the difficulties that artists are really facing,” said Peter, shortly after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which prevented the advancement of the art industry. “I am different, I am luckier than others because I still make a profit .”

Freedman paid $6 million for the guitar because it had been played by Cobain on MTV Unplugged in November 1993, just five months before Cobain's departure. Cobain reworked both the guitar and the hard case to fit his MTV.

The guitar is expected to sell for $1.5 million. However, when the bid reached $5 million (much higher than the previous record guitar sale), Freedman increased his bid to $1 million to win the auction. Freedman runs Røde Microphone, which is valued at over $1 billion. He is also a generous philanthropist, and has donated at least $5 million to the Sydney Festival to support artists in January 2021.

Freedman plans to take Cobain's 1959 Martin D-18E around the world to raise awareness of the plight of struggling artists and lobby the government to provide more aid. “ One in many millions [musicians] make a little bit of money but they don't really own it, " Freedman told SMH newspaper in January 2021. "Most of them, if really talented, are. We'll know their reputation, and they're making a pretty average living. But most are the opposite. But they do it because it's their love, because they're an artist."

2. JOHN LENNON's GIBSON J-160E: $2,400,000 - 2015

John Lennon owned the new Gibson J-160E for only 2 years before the guitar was stolen. However, the guitar had the opportunity to appear in the top songs that made the Beatles' name.

An anonymous buyer purchased the guitar for $2.4 million in 2015, well above the expected price of less than $1 million (half of the auction amount donated to the Spirit Foundation - a charity founded by John and Yoko Ono). Lennon and George Harrison both ordered two identical Gibson J-160Es in 1962 - which they called the "jumbo tree" - for around £161 each. That was a lot of money at the time - the equivalent in 2015 was about $4,600.

Lennon used the guitar on Beatles songs like Love Me Do and co-wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand , and Please, Please Me with Paul McCartney. Unfortunately, the guitar was stolen after a performance in London in late 1963.

John Lennon's Gibson J-160E

The This Boy video above was one of the last times the instrument was seen. “ George and I used to bring home a jumbo, so no one noticed that the other was missing until the end of the season,” Lennon said in an interview with The Beatles Monthly Book a few years after the guitar was struck. steal. “ A week or two later, I asked Mal [Mal Evans, team leader] where he had put my jumbo. Only later did we realize the guitar had been stolen, in Finsbury Park. I was never able to find the guitar again.”

The guitar then reappeared in a San Diego music store in 1967 without any accompanying information. It was identified as Lennon's guitar in 2008 by Beatles expert Andy Babiuk (author of Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio ), who traced the serial number of the rental receipt. The original remains in Gibson's archives and compares its woody qualities.

Many consider The Beatles to be the most important band in pop history, making the demand for Beatles collectibles expected for years to come.

3. DAVID GILMOUR's CFMERTIN D-35 1969: $1,095,000 - 2019

David Gilmour, a member of the band Pink Floyd bought the Martin D-35 from a street performer outside Manny's Music store in New York in early 1970. The guitar later accompanied David throughout his career. and was later resold for over $1 million to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay in 2019 (who also purchased the Black Strat tree for nearly $4 million). This acoustic guitar is expected to sell for only $10,000-20,000 USD.

Part of a massive collection of 126 guitars, including 37 acoustic guitars, Gilmour was auctioned off through Christie's. They grossed a record $21.5 million, with Gilmour donating the proceeds to environmental charity ClientEarth.

CFMERTIN D-35 1969 BY DAVID GILMOUR

You can hear guitar D-35 in Wish You Were Here , a ballad inspired by Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, who left the band in 1968. The opening riff is really bright. on the 12-string acoustic, Martin D12-28 that Gilmour bought in 1974. (This guitar sold for over half a million dollars at the same auction).

However, Gilmour has used the D-35 in most of Pink Floyd's songs over the years, he told Guitar Player magazine in 2003. Christie's published an article worth reading about Gilmour's love of acoustic guitars. for the 2019 auction. “ I play the guitar every day, mostly acoustics, because they sound better in the room, ” says Gilmour.

4. MARTIN 000-42 1939 BY ERIC CLAPTON: $791,500 - 2004

The lead guitar that Eric Clapton played during his 1992 MTV Unplugged appearance sold for $791,500 in 2004. The album with a picture of Clapton and Martin guitar on the cover - won six Grammy Awards and sold 26 million copies worldwide.

The instrument is also featured in acoustic versions of the songs: Layla, Before You Accuse Me and Old Love , as well as the original versions of My Father's Eyes and Lonely Stranger.

Clapton liked the Martin 000-42 built before World War II so much that he used it as a model for a guitar later built by Martin: Clapton's classic 000-42EC.

“This is an incredible guitar, ” Clapton said in an interview. “I would never have been able to leave it without a similarly good guitar, an OM… This is the 'Unplugged' guitar that has been played throughout my time on stage.”

Only 113 pre-World War II Martin 000-42 guitars were built. They are designed with a short ruler, making it easier for players to reach the 14-key fret.

5. 1950 REX ACOUSTIC - PAUL McCARTNEY's FIRST GUITAR: $615,203

John Lennon isn't the only member of the Beatles to make this list of best value acoustic guitars. The Rex that Paul McCartney first learned to play sold at auction for £330,000 in 2015 - more than three times the estimated price.

The guitar was sold by Ian James, a classmate of McCartney's, who initially lent McCartney the guitar and taught McCartney how to play.

McCartney took the guitar to a prom, where he met Lennon, then played with The Quarrymen, and impressed him with a few chords, sparking one of the most famous musical collaborations. in history. (The guitar Lennon played that day sold at auction for £155,500 in 1999.)

Two photos are included: McCartney playing guitar today and a photo (taken by McCartney) nearly 50 years ago of a young Ian James with the guitar.

A note written by McCartney revealed: “The piano above, which belonged to my old schoolmate Ian James, was the first I ever held. It was also the guitar that I learned my first chords from in his house at 43 Elswich Street, Liverpool 8.”

6. 1930 MARTIN OM-45 DELUXE BY ROY ROGERS: USD 554,500 - 2009

Roy Rogers' famous 1930s OM-45 Deluxe Martin was sold at auction by the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum for $460,000 in 2009.

This was the first OM-45 Deluxe model Martin had ever built - only 15 were made - although Roy Rogers (then an unknown musician named Leonard Franklin Slyever) paid only $30 for it at a pawn shop in California in 1933.

Martin honored Roy Rogers with an autographed replica of his famous guitar in 2006.

7. 1971 DAVID GILMOUR's CFMERTIN D12-28: $531,000 - 2019

David Gilmour's 12-string Martin D-12-28 sold at auction for $531,000 in 2019 as part of a larger collection bringing in $21.5 million. Its initial expected price ranges from $5000-$10,000 only.

It's the guitar Gilmour used to compose the song Wish You Were Here , and can also be heard below the main riff played on his Martin D-35. The track was recorded to sound like it was being played on the radio, with the D-35 having full sound. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song among the greatest songs of all time.

" Every time I listen to the actual original recording, I think, 'God, I really should have done it better,'" Gilmour told Paul Rappaport in September 2011." It should have been. shouldn't be 'too polished' ... and it wasn't polished at all.”

The guitar can also be heard on Wish You Were Here's second track, Welcome To The Machine , before reappearing four years later on the 1979 concept album The Wall, and on the album's track Paranoid Eyes . 1983 anti-war concept The Final Cut.

8. 1969 ELVIS PRESLEY's GIBSON DOVE: $334,000

Elvis used this custom guitar regularly from 1971 to 1973, most famously during the Aloha From Hawaii concert. It was auctioned in 2016 for more than the expected $200,000 - $300,000.

The guitar is covered in glossy black paint, the symbol of Elvis's black belt in karate, and the keyboard features an "Elvis Presley" acanthus inlay. There is also a Kenpo Karate decal on the body of the guitar.

In 1975, Presley gave a guitar to a 21-year-old audience member, Mike Harris, at a concert in Asheville, North Carolina. The person then played the guitar for the rest of the concert and was expelled from the building.

Via: Inside-Guitar

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