Should I sell my D-40?

[barefoot]

5 years ago I started my fancy new high tech job. In an impulsive moment at the music store (after getting my first bonus check) I bought a Martin D-40.

Soon after I lost interest in guitar playing and have moved almost completely into making electronic music. I rarely play my guitars these days and I really want to get a GOOD synthesizer. Plus, with a wife and 2yr old daughter now, I also have a lot less money.

So, should I sell my D-40?

You see, I have a small phobia about selling things, and worry that I might really regret it...

you know, like...... maybe Martin will go out of business after 170 years...... and then my daughter will want to play the guitar...... but a guitar like that will be a collectors item and far too expensive for us to afford...... bla, bla, bla....

What do you think? Is there some reason why selling it would be a big mistake, or should I just lighten the f*ck up?

barefoot

 

[Treeline]

Lighten up...

but if you sell that beauty, you have to be stark raving mad!

By the time your little girl will be old enough to appreciate it, it will have aged a bit. Use it for collateral if you have to, but don't sell it!



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Easy for me to say -
I'm a certified acoustic addict...

 

[joro]

I understand completely and I have a solution

I'll give you $20.00 american for it...
Take it off your hands and give it a home where it will be loved...cherished...cared for....nurtured....hell...I'll even adopt it and write it off on my taxes....

Besides...it would look wicked cool next to the 1968 000-18


So....???????
We gotta deal??? or what??
Joe

 

[joro]

Of course.......

It would have to come with a hard shell case....ya know?
Joe

 

[foo]

Martin guitars are an American classic - and there aren't too many of those that are recognized world-wide.
A D-40 is a high-end piece and will slowly appreciate in value over the years.

Soundwise, it has been my experience that if you don't play 'em, they don't develop 'the sound', but will develop the sound once you start playing it. So if you want to keep it in case La Nina wants to play and as an investment in case she doesn't, cool.

But buying a synthesizer that is going to be obsolete in five years (max) and selling an instrument that will still be a killer in fifty years doesn't seem to make much sense.

To me.

But it might to you.

You can get a really good synthesizer for $1,500 or so - I'd find the money and keep the guitar.

Hope this helps.

foo

 

[joro]

Just for the record.....

I think you should keep it but,.....
I also think that you should play and record it.....

Synths are great but,........they are not "real" sounds...(closer and closer all the time.....the Yamaha Motif has a kick-ass sound bank...sampled instruments, especially the strings are way cool...)


I was given the 000-18 last month after being it's custodian for over a year....
It sat in my neighbor's closet for 23 years after my neighbor's husband died....no one touched it....it is perfect....mint....I love it...

Don't sell it man....find some other way...OK?
Joe

 

[64Firebird]

I beleave it is a sin to let a good guitar sit and gather dust. Whenever I see ventage guitars that haven't been played I always wonder if there is something wrong with them.

It was made to be played. If you don't want to play it, then sell it to someone that will.

 

[joro]

It was made to be played. If you don't want to play it, then sell it to someone that will.

Or give it to joro.....consider it charity....a good tax write-off

 

[JonnyM]

Don't sell your Martin D-40

You'll reget it someday. You've got it, it's amortized so to speak. It doesn't cost you anything to have it on-site. Give it a whirl, write some songs. It'll be a great instrument when you have a guest guitarist over to dub some real acoustic sounds over your keyboards. If you let it get away, the money will be gone in no time with nothing to show for it and you'll never, ever, get it back.

Take it from one who has been there and made that mistake. Not a day goes by...

 

[barefoot]

Thanks all.

You've convinced me not to sell.

barefoot

 

[Treeline]

You could send it to me...

and I'd promise to make sure it was played on a regular basis so's it'd be properly broken in when you're ready to see it again in ten years. Hell, I'd even do it for free!