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 seller含羞草研究社檚 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 含羞草研究社� you name it, it含羞草研究社檒l be auctioned on Nov. 19.
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Someone in the Gulf Islands is selling off a "lifetime collection" of musical instruments with Surrey's .
含羞草研究社� Tom Zillich (@TomZillich)
It takes some time to scroll through the 448 items, as seen below.
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A 含羞草研究社減review含羞草研究社� 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 they含羞草研究社檒l be forever more.
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Online is a much more efficient way of auctioning, he added.
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