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Sell or Auction Your Nirvana Kurt Cobain Guitar for up to $100,000+ at NateDSanders.com Auctions

ByNate D Sanders October 6, 2017January 12, 2020

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Do you have a high-value item that you would like to get the maximum price possible? If so, please call us at (310) 440-2982 or use the form below. A representative of Nate D. Sanders Auctions will contact you concerning your items.

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FREE APPRAISAL. To auction, buy, consign or sell your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar for over $100,000, please email your photos and description to [email protected] of the Nate D. Sanders Auction House in Los Angeles (http://www.NateDSanders.com) for a FREE APPRAISAL.

We at NateDSanders.com offer you  an interest-free cash advance for your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar that should save you thousands of dollars over our competitors.  We will also grant you a high reserve which no other auction house will let you do.  Free FedEx pickup, free insurance and free FedEx shipping to our auction house in Los Angeles.

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We at Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com can get up to these prices for you or more for your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar .  Please email [email protected] for a free appraisal.

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We just sold George Harrison’s sitar for $62,500 and received a tremendous amount of publicity for it; the same sort of PR we feel we can get for you when we sell your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar for over $100,000.  Here is the BBC article:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41438617

Beatle George Harrison’s sitar auctioned for $62,500

A sitar owned and played by George Harrison has been sold for $62,500 (£46,581) in the United States.

The instrument, purchased from a shop on London’s Oxford Street in 1965, was used by Harrison during the recording of the Beatles song Norwegian Wood.

The Indian string instrument, crafted by a well-known music shop in Kolkata, was later gifted to a friend of Harrison’s first wife, Patti Boyd.

The name of the successful bidder has not been disclosed by the auctioneers.

Bidding for the sitar began on 28 September at $50,000 (£37,327).

Harrison had discovered the sitar in 1965, on the set of the Beatles’ second film, Help.

His love affair with oriental mysticism first became known in Norwegian Wood, John Lennon’s tale of an extra-marital fling. Acoustic guitar and muted bass were augmented by the Indian instrument.

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“We’d recorded the Norwegian Wood backing track and it needed something. We would usually start looking through the cupboard to see if we could come up with something, a new sound, and I picked the sitar up – it was just lying around; I hadn’t really figured out what to do with it,” Harrison was quoted as saying in The Beatles Anthologies.

“It was quite spontaneous: I found the notes that played the lick. It fitted and it worked.”

Next year, Harrison gifted the sitar to George Drummond, a friend of Boyd, during the couple’s honeymoon in Barbados.

The Beatles recorded Norwegian Wood – the first Western rock band to use the sitar on a commercial recording – in October 1965, heralding a short lived “raga-rock” genre.

A year later, Harrison travelled to India to learn how to play the instrument under the renowned sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.

In an interview with the BBC’s Mark Tully in April 2000, Shankar said when he first heard Harrison playing the sitar in Norwegian Wood, he was not impressed.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said, “it sounded so strange. Just imagine some Indian villager trying to play the violin when you know what it should sound like.”

Harrison later agreed, saying the sitar on Norwegian Wood was “very rudimentary”.

“I didn’t know how to tune it properly, and it was a very cheap sitar to begin with. But that was the environment in the band, everybody was very open to bringing in new ideas.”

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The sitar was auctioned in the US

Kurt Cobain guitar George Harrison's Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ''Norwegian Wood'' -- With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned Kurt Cobain guitar George Harrison's Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ''Norwegian Wood'' -- With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned Kurt Cobain guitar George Harrison's Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ''Norwegian Wood'' -- With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned Kurt Cobain guitar George Harrison's Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ''Norwegian Wood'' -- With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned
Kurt Cobain guitar George Harrison's Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ''Norwegian Wood'' -- With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned Kurt Cobain guitar George Harrison's Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ''Norwegian Wood'' -- With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned
George Harrison’s Sitar From 1965, When The Beatles Recorded ”Norwegian Wood” — With an LOA From Pattie Boyd & the Only Beatles Sitar Ever to be Auctioned / Click above for larger image.

FREE APPRAISAL. To auction, buy, consign or sell your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar for over $100,000, please email your photos and description to [email protected] of the Nate D. Sanders Auction House in Los Angeles (http://www.NateDSanders.com) for a FREE APPRAISAL.

We at NateDSanders.com offer you  an interest-free cash advance for your stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar that should save you thousands of dollars over our competitors.  We will also grant you a high reserve which no other auction house will let you do.  Free FedEx pickup, free insurance and free FedEx shipping to our auction house in Los Angeles.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions offers the following services for a stage or studio used Nirvana Kurt Cobain guitar:

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Do you have a high-value item that you would like to get the maximum price possible? If so, please call us at (310) 440-2982 or use the form below. A representative of Nate D. Sanders Auctions will contact you concerning your items.

Attach up to 4 pictures in gif, jpg or png format not to exceed 4Mb.

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While holding the Shift Key down, select the first image and the last image. All images between will be highlighted.

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