One sure way to beat inflation and present devaluation of the bond market to invest for the future is to put your money in vintage electric guitars. Paul McCartney left handed guitars and original flying v guitars will have demand in spite of recessions.
Especially in demand are vintage Gibson hollow-body, Fender’s vintage sunburst Stratocaster and vintage Fender guitar amplifiers. Nostalgia for early rock is only one reason for the high valuation of vintage guitars and accompanying guitar equipment. The main reason demand is so high for vintage guitars is the sound they produce is as unique as the instrument itself.
Experienced musicians know guitars made decades ago are unique and have a sound all to their own. Vintage electric guitars were made when the technology to do so was in its early stages. Electronic pick-ups were either hand wound or partially machine wound leaving each to be a little different from the next. A few less turns, a few less or more strands of wire made each pick-up different on every vintage electric guitar. Early electric guitars were partially or fully hand-made with wood stock that was not exactly the same from guitar to guitar making sound boxes reverberate a little differently from the next. That meant that pick-ups and sound boxes were unique to each vintage electric guitar making them sound different among similar product lines. Through time, some of the varnish surrounding the wound copper wire in the pick-ups degrade causing a little natural distortion in the electronic pick-up further differentiating the uniqueness of each and every vintage electric guitar and extremely sought after by master musicians trying to find “the vintage electric guitar” that sounds perfect to them.
Original Fender guitar amplifiers were made with tubes and not with current “solid-state” circuitry. Tubed amps, like Fender and Epiphone vintage amplifiers had unique sounds which cannot be made with the cleaner Marshall or Yamaha solid-state amplifiers on the market today. Those with good ears can tell a guitarist playing vintage guitars and on vintage amplifiers.
The best way to chose a vintage electric guitar and/or vintage guitar amplifier is to play it to hear its unique sound qualities. Hearing the sound a vintage electric guitar produces or the unique sound of a tubed vintage guitar amplifier assures the investor of the musical demand an electric guitar may have. Low Fender serial numbers on the back of the body indicate more of the historical demand a vintage electric guitar may have. If your potential investment has both a low serial number and that unique and “special” sound of a fine musical instrument, you have struck gold!
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