Pink Floyd guitar sold for record-breaking $14.6m

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    David Gilmour's (@davidgilmour) “Black Strat” sold for $14.55 million on Thursday at Christie's auction for the Jim Irsay collection in New York.

    Pink Floyd guitar sold for record-breaking $14.6m https://share.google/tcsgc53MUhQNpdZCc
     
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    Utterly useless of course, without Gilmour bending it like it were made of rubber.
     
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    Audioguydaz, Mar 14, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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    Guess streaming royalties weren't cutting it.. good for him.
     
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    About that..., Gilmour sold that strat 6+ years ago for $3.975M I believe - proceeds donated to charity, as were the proceeds to his house, recently (he mentions both in his 2+ hour Rick Beato interview if memory serves).

    The person who bought it then (Jim Irsay, owner of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts) has simply just resold it - for $10M more, and also for charity. "Sales from all Jim's guitars are going towards mental health research, treatment, and raising awareness."
     
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    Great to know there are still some good people out there.
     
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    David or Jim, notwithstanding the royalty ecosystem aspect and/or reading between any reserve sale/reselling costs lines... Cool! :wink:
     
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    And?
     
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    A handcrafted electric guitar belonging to Jerry Garcia, guitarist of the Grateful Dead, also fetched a significantly higher price than expected: $11.5 million.
     
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    I'm selling my '80s Strat Standard for $15 million if anyone is interested, PM me.
     
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    This is from wikipedia for reference:

    On 20 June 2019, Gilmour auctioned 120 of his guitars for charity, at Christie's in New York, including his Black Strat, his #0001 and early 1954 Stratocasters, and his 1955 Les Paul. The Black Strat sold for $3,975,000, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. The auction raised $21,490,750, with the proceeds going to the environmentalist charity ClientEarth.
     
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    and then the guitar will hang somewhere or totally being unused ...

    That is kinda sad imo.

    Reminds me on the mixer desk being auctioned at reverb for 2mio GBP ... in the end its just a collectable, one will never make that kind of music the artists did make with it ... all that bcs of nostalgic, sentimental value?
     
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    Almost $15 million for an old guitar used by David Gilmour?

    I can't even imagine the astronomical amount I'll be able to get by selling the VolumeShaper plugin from David Guetta which he gave me for my 60th birthday...

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    You never know, maybe the millionaire's son will play it someday. Keep in mind that you can do a lot of good things with 14 million. Maybe he'll even donate 1 million to AudioSexPro to support up-and-coming talent. Although, when it comes to money, suddenly all the users here are considered promising young talents.
     
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