Микрофон Джона Леннона и кофеварка Ринго Старра выставлены на аукцион

Equipment used by John Lennon in the studio where he recorded Imagine is to be sold at auction.

The collection from Ascot Sound Studios includes his microphones, tape machines and even Ringo Starr's coffee percolator.

The online auction, which starts on May 11, is expected to raise more than £300,000. Lennon built the studios in 1970 in the grounds of Tittenhurst Park, Berkshire, the Georgian manor he owned with his wife Yoko Ono.

Lennon sold it to Ringo a few years later, and he lived there until the late Eighties. The house was also the site of The Beatles last photo session in 1969, for the album Hey Jude. Other items for sale include a mixing desk from Abbey Road studios. The owner of the equipment has chosen to remain anonymous.

Hamish Jackson, who is organising the auction for sales firm mjQ, said: "This equipment has such a fantastic heritage, and the build quality back then was so good, that it is all still in working order. Anything involving The Beatles will always be popular. My father ran an auction in 1980 of stuff from Abbey Road, and a roll of toilet paper which had property of EMI stamped on every sheet sold for £500. A few years ago, the same roll was on eBay for £30,000."

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"Sounds a little like the once flourishing trade in pieces of the (forest full of) wood from the 'true cross of Christ' or one of the (several hundred) nails used to nail JC to the cross. I wonder how many 'Beatles' things have been sold to the gullible.
- Rogan, Irving, 28/04/2011 01:31"

А почем нынче такой микрофончик?:-))

2Corvin:

>Сходите по ссылке - комментарии доставляют )"Sounds
>a little like the once flourishing trade in pieces
>of the (forest full of) wood from the 'true cross
>of Christ' or one of the (several hundred) nails
>used to nail JC to the cross. I wonder how many
>'Beatles' things have been sold to the gullible.-
>Rogan, Irving, 28/04/2011 01:31"
А что, у Ринго было много кофеварок)

John Lennon microphone sells for £6,000 at auction

A microphone from John Lennon's home studio, in which he recorded early solo albums and hit song Imagine, has sold for £6,650 at auction.

The former Beatle had the equipment installed at his Georgian manor house estate at Tittenhurst Park, near Ascot, in 1970.

The house became the recording venue for the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums.

It sold on Friday night but other equipment is still up for auction.

Lennon was joined by his wife Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr and George Harrison in using the equipment during recording sessions.

Recording equipment specialist seller MJQ Ltd, which is handling the sale, is also selling a mixing console from London's Abbey Road studios, which has been used for recordings for the past 18 years.

An acetate disc used for mastering recordings, in which all four Beatles have etched their names, is expected to sell for tens of thousands of pounds.

A coffee percolator owned by Starr - who later acquired Lennon's home - also sold for about £400.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-13483639