{"id":118,"date":"2010-12-05T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:20:38","slug":"hendrix-fender-duo-sonic-sells-for-164000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/hendrix-fender-duo-sonic-sells-for-164000\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrix Fender Duo Sonic Sells for \u00a3164,000!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Vintage&amp;Rare we are huge fans of Jimi Hendrix \u2013 so thanks to our friends over at <a title=\"GuitarCollecting official site\" href=\"http:\/\/guitarcollecting.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">GuitarCollecting.co.uk<\/a> and Marko Flyss for this shout out on a recent auction for a Fender Duo Sonic owned by Jimi Hendrix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jimmy_hendrix_fender_duo_sonix_sold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1027 aligncenter\" alt=\"jimmy_hendrix_fender_duo_sonix_sold\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jimmy_hendrix_fender_duo_sonix_sold-225x300.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tan coloured Fender Duo Sonic, played by Hendrix before he was famous, fetched \u00a3164,675 at an <a href=\"http:\/\/guitarcollecting.co.uk\/2010\/11\/03\/hendrix-fender-duo-sonic-sells-for-164000\/\" target=\"_blank\">auction<\/a> today, over 400 times the price he originally paid.<\/p>\n<p>The star\u2019s early guitar sparked a bidding frenzy at the Cameo Auctioneers Records\u2019 Music and Memorabilia auction in Midgham, Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrix had paid just \u00a3100 for the tan guitar when he was an unknown 21-year-old backing musician.<\/p>\n<p>Going by the name Jimmy James, he used the 1959\/60 model from March to November 1964 while performing with the Isley Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Two original pieces of Hendrix artwork from 1967 were also sold for a total of \u00a317,400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Vintage&amp;Rare we are huge fans of Jimi Hendrix \u2013 so thanks to our friends over at GuitarCollecting.co.uk and Marko Flyss for this shout out on a recent auction for a Fender Duo Sonic owned by Jimi Hendrix. The tan coloured Fender Duo Sonic, played by Hendrix before he was famous, fetched \u00a3164,675 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,29,154,155,156,157,134],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-duo-sonic","tag-fender","tag-guitarcollecting-co-uk","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-marko-flyss","tag-tan-coloured","tag-vintage-guitars-and-rare-guitars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintageandrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}