
#Price for pre gibson tobias basic 5 serial numbers
Basses below the serial number 2044 were built in the California factory headed-up by Michael Tobias serial numbers after that were produced by Gibson with a transition period in which Tobias worked with Gibson and continued to produce basses. Michael Tobias left the company in 1992 to found Michael Tobias Design which produces a line of hand-made basses similar in spirit to the older Tobias basses. The first Tobias bass under Gibson ownership bore the serial number 1094. In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville. The first serial number was 0178, instead of the usual 0001, as a reference to the month the first bass was completed, January 1978. Tobias basses also were among the first to feature an asymmetrical neck, a design where the neck is thinner on the lower side than the upper. However, once purchased by Gibson in 1990, a few bolt-on models were produced such as the Killer-B (with the "B" in the name standing for " bolt-on") as well as the Growler Basses. The vast majority of Tobias instruments are of neck-through construction, a style of neck-body assembly where the neck of the instrument is a single piece of wood that extends through the body and had the sides of the bass glued to it rather than being bolted on. What the list above clearly states is that a Stradivarius instrument is a financial and emotional investment that is only going to rise in value.Tobias Guitars was established in Orlando, Florida in April 1977. Considering if sold below its upper price range, it’s a relative bargain. This particular Strad went into auction at Sotheby’s galleries in New Bond Street, Lond with a sale estimate of $1.5-2.5 million. In June 2014, The 1731 “Kreutzer” violin, which had a presale estimate of $7.5 million to $10 million failed to reach the reserve price after a sealed-bid auction that began June 6, at Christie’s auction house.The Molitor was previously thought to have been owned by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 2010, the record for most expensive musical instrument was again broken when concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers purchased the 1697 Molitor Stradivarius for a record $3.6 million.In April of 2007, the 1729 Soloman ex-Lambert was sold at Christie’s for $2.7 million to an anonymous bidder.In May 2006, Antonio Stradivari’s 1707 Hammer violin was sold for $3,544,000, achieving a world record for any musical instrument sold at that time.Sponsored by the Stradivari Society of Chicago, the Lady Tennant was loaned to violinist Yang Liu and in 2009 it was loaned to Yossif Ivanov. In April of 2005, the 1699 Lady Tennant was auctioned at Christie’s for $2,032,000.It was purchased by violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn’s grandfather, who gave it to her on her 16th birthday. In 1990, the 1720 Red Mendelssohn was sold for $1.7 million.He owns a total of four Stradivarius violins.

Monroe played a Gibson F-5 model (serial number 73987 signed by Loyd Loar on July 9, 1923) for most all of his career. The F-5 model was made famous by the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. In 1998, Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov purchased the 1727 Kreutzer for nearly $1.6 million. Loar designed the flagship L-5 archtop guitar and the Gibson F-5 mandolin that was introduced in 1922, before leaving the company in 1924.
