Hindsight is 20/20

[Jack Hammer]

One of my first electronic keyboards was a Fender Rhodes statge piano with the silver top. I sold that and got a suitcase model, also an original fender Rhodes before they were just Rhodes. right about now you are probably thinking "hey1 this gut is in the wrong section, get over toe keyboards". well, you'd be wrong becuase that is not the point. The point is this, when instruments such as the DX7 came along, I sold my Rhodes and thought, good riddance to that back breaker. I also sold my Arp Odysey. Eventually, I left the music business for a while and I sold my Moog, I sold my Roland Super Jupiter and get this, a Hammond C3 with Leslie 147 in near perfect condition that I bought used for $700.00 and sold for $1,000.00.

Anyway, I never thought for a million years that these instruments would become desirable again. but they did. Now, everybody is getting rid of hardware and going software and such.

SO THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS THIS: What is going to happen to the many, many analogue, 24 track tape machines in studios the world over. Many are now collecting dust and it will only get worse. But, can we expect a similar thing to happen with those tape machines as happened with, say, keyboards. Will the sound of those "vintage" analogue tape machines become a desirable sound or even just an effect to be added to other sounds and be resurrected and increase in value. Should those that have them hold on to them becuase of this. Have we learned that the best equipment from each era is timeless and will always have a use?

These are the questions. What follows will hopefully be the answers.

 

[Track Rat]

Oh, it's already happened my friend. A used MCI in good condition can still fetch five figures. Analog consoles on the other hand are relatively dirt cheap right now.
On a related yet unrelated subject, long, long ago I owned and sold a '62 Gretch Country Gentleman Chet Atkins model. Not long ago I was browsing through a magazine about collectable stuff while waiting for my girlfriend at a doctors office. I was looking at an artical about how yuppies are now collecting guitars as an investment, like fine art. I saw a simaler guitar as mine going for $25,000. Hold me.