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 sellerB次元官网网址檚 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 B次元官网网址� you name it, itB次元官网网址檒l be auctioned on Nov. 19.

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B次元官网网址淚t came from one gentleman out of his house on one of the Gulf Islands,B次元官网网址� reported Jeremy Dodd, president of Able Auctions.

B次元官网网址淗e was buying from around the world and shipping it to this little island,B次元官网网址� he added. B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 quite a collection, and I imagine his shipping costs over the past 40 years were pretty high. ThatB次元官网网址檚 my guess, probably 40 years (of collecting the instruments).B次元官网网址�

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Someone in the Gulf Islands is selling off a "lifetime collection" of musical instruments with Surrey's .
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B次元官网网址� Tom Zillich (@TomZillich)

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A B次元官网网址減reviewB次元官网网址� 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 theyB次元官网网址檒l be forever more.

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Online is a much more efficient way of auctioning, he added.

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tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com
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