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- Model
- 360
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- Strings
- 12
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- Special
- V64
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- Finish
- Fireglo
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- Manufacturing Date
- 1989-04
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- Serial #
- D28867
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- Celebrity owned
- Pete Townshend
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- Registration Date
- Dec 01 2015
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- Country
- United Kingdom
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- State/Province
- London
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- Lefty
- No
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- Collected Item
- Yes
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- Registered User
- Yes
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- Comments
- Auctioned by Bonhams. As used by Pete on The Who anniversary tour in 1989. This guitar was smashed and mounted as an art installation.
Pete's statement reads: '...To bring some of the early Who songs to life I decided to buy some Rickenbacker 12 string guitars, as used on our very first single I CAN'T EXPLAIN. The problem was that I wasn't used to the shape, weight or set up of these instruments. I'd forgotten that they are very delicate, lightly made. Indeed, my entire guitar-smashing reputation had been triggered when I was just 19 years old when one of them literally fell apart, as I was making the noises of war using feedback. I had decided there and then to smash it, making my very first statement on stage of art with an ''autodestructive'' function. I think I thought that would be the end of the band, and me, and I would continue quietly at art college. In fact the guitar smashing ignited something in the audience and the word got out. In the first years of work with The Who in 1964 and 1965 I smashed about 7 Rickenbackers, but never another until 1989, and the one offered here is the only one to survive, even in pieces...One day on the 1989 tour. I got into a muddle with the guitar strap on one of my ready-to-play Rickenbacker 12 strings after a string break, and was trying to swap it when it fell to the ground and the neck was smashed. Here was another opportunity for autodestruction al la 1964! No longer 19 years old, and no longer at art college, I did my best. I tried to look angry, but I was merely flustered, and laughed about it later.
I finished it off, and the pieces were gathered by my guitar technician. Later, I mounted the pieces as an installation, and that is on offer here. I will never smash another Rickenbacker again, and certainly never mount one as a trophy in this way...I am including here the other 12 string guitar from the same tour - both of these instruments were played many times during that anniversary tour...'
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This item was identified as a Modern (1984 and up) instrument
The following is a summary of sales of above referenced model gathered from actual sales on eBay:
*Basis for comparison: Same model, same strings number, same "special" features, same era
| Sample type | Min | Avg | Median | Max | Sample Size |
| Same model, same era: | $1464 | $2323 | $2275 | $4000 | 251 |
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