It took a day to wrap up and truck out hundreds of musical instruments now stored in a Surrey warehouse ahead of an online auction.
At the seller乌鸦传媒檚 house, an Able Auctions crew sorted and transported some unique and rare instruments including guitars, amps, microphones, horns, harps, banjos, drums, dulcimers, mixers, cases, xylophones 乌鸦传媒� you name it, it乌鸦传媒檒l be auctioned on Nov. 19.
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Someone in the Gulf Islands is selling off a "lifetime collection" of musical instruments with Surrey's .
乌鸦传媒� Tom Zillich (@TomZillich)
It takes some time to scroll through the 448 items, as seen below.
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The auction company won乌鸦传媒檛 name the seller, due to privacy concerns. 乌鸦传媒淚 imagine he wouldn乌鸦传媒檛 be too hard to track down because he乌鸦传媒檚 promoting it (the auction) quite a bit on his social media channels,乌鸦传媒� Dodd said.
A 乌鸦传媒減review乌鸦传媒� of all those instruments is planned Friday, Nov. 18, a day before the online auction.
The pandemic forced Able to hold all auctions online, where they乌鸦传媒檒l be forever more.
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Online is a much more efficient way of auctioning, he added.
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