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Great. I hear about this two weeks AFTER my birthday.
Tuesday, the custom built one of a kind mixer which was used at Abbey Road Studios to record The Beatles‘ Abbey Road album will go up for sale. The EMI TG12345 console was built in 1968, and over the past five years or so, it’s been painstakingly restored using many of the original parts – along with some which had to be custom manufactured because the originals no longer exist.
The unit was also used to track some work by the individual Beatles, including John Lennon‘s Instant Karma! and his John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band record, Paul McCartney‘s McCartney, George Harrison‘s All Things Must Pass, and Ringo Starr‘s Sentimental Journey.
There’s no word on what price it will fetch, but it’s a good bet that it won’t be cheap: for comparison, the 12-string Hootenanny played by John Lennon on Help! brought in $2.85 million. For just a guitar.
If you win a half million bucks on The Q’s Five Hundred Thousand Dollar Crack The Code, presented by The Liquor Co. 1977, maybe you could put it all on a down payment for that mixer.
Love, Dr. Scott James
