A buddy trying to deal with dad’s hoard…

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2FarGone

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….now that he’s gone. Unbelievable. You wouldn’t believe how much of this stuff this guy had, and the corresponding stress he put on his son trying to figure out WTF to do with all this crap. Do your Swedish death cleaning, folks. Your kids will thank you..

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That’s the problem - it’s ALL cool, but there’s way too much of all of it to deal with. That particular piece is in his basement. I’ve little doubt that he’d sell it.
 
2FarGone said:
That’s the problem - it’s ALL cool, but there’s way too much of all of it to deal with. That particular piece is in his basement. I’ve little doubt that he’d sell it.
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If there is anything antique audio related like that I may be interested if he'd like to reach out to me. I can hopefully make it a bit easier for him to clean out quickly.
 
Michaels HiFi said:
If there is anything antique audio related like that I may be interested if he'd like to reach out to me. I can hopefully make it a bit easier for him to clean out quickly.
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I spoke with him, and it appears that he’s now contracted with an auction company that specializes in the kind of musical offerings that his dad collected. Five storage units and a packed house (including garage) of instruments, accordions, player pianos (including a grand piano that also operated the foot pedals), sheet music and so on. Even then, it will happen in 3 phases, there’s so much stuff.
 
In reality, unless you have the time, energy, knowledge, and desire, getting a professional involved would be mandatory in my opinion. I’m glad he has off loaded this onerous, perhaps emotional, task. There will probably be more $ for the estate, and those items will have a better chance of ending up with someone who really values the item.
 
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