'Strings for Charity' : An opportunity lost for charities?

[goonieman]

I was just tinkering about with my bass thinking, I wonder what Flea's tech does with all his strings after a night's worth of gigging...

The way I see it, he has around 5-10 gigging bass's. That's easily 5-10 replacement sets each day (the tech does put a fresh set on for each gig).

Which leads me to think: why doesn't he auction-off these sets as part of his music academy charity?

For that matter, why don't all 'famous' musicians do this, for whatever cause? Imagine a set of 'gigged-on-this-date, 'at-this-venue' set of strings, guaranteed by some middleman agency or music label?

They'd be worth £50 a set for sure, right? All that money could be going to charity, rather than down the drain.

[JapanAxe]

I would have thought the market would saturate quite quickly, and the max prices would drop.

[goonieman]

For sure - but even non-musicians would buy them. You gotta think - it's a GLOBAL market.

The strings could be given to an independent charity to run. Overheads would be low.

[pfretrock]

get your famous names bracelets here.

[url="http://www.wearyourmusic.com/pages/famous-artist-bracelets"]http://www.wearyourm...rtist-bracelets[/url]


EDIT: I'm gonna wait a while before getting a 'Sir Cliff' guitar string bracelet in case the value drops.

Edited May 16, 2016 by pfretrock

[goonieman]

Wow! Man... all my ideas, always already taken.

[Grangur]

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1463407167' post='3051073']
get your famous names bracelets here.

[url="http://www.wearyourmusic.com/pages/famous-artist-bracelets"]http://www.wearyourm...rtist-bracelets[/url]


EDIT: I'm gonna wait a while before getting a 'Sir Cliff' guitar string bracelet in case the value drops.
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"100% of [b]net [/b]profits go to the charity" So it's net of their profit then?
I do wonder how much actually gets to the chosen charity?

[pfretrock]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1463429092' post='3051326']
I do wonder how much actually gets to the chosen charity?
[/quote]

As it a LLC, you'll never know! How do they handle provenance?

[Grangur]

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1463508772' post='3051956']
As it a LLC, you'll never know! How do they handle provenance?
[/quote]

Very true. I didn't notice any promises of certificates signed by the donor. We have no way of knowing.

"A fool and his money......"

[darkandrew]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1463429092' post='3051326']


"100% of [b]net [/b]profits go to the charity" So it's net of their profit then?
I do wonder how much actually gets to the chosen charity?
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I'm more disturbed that they have strings from a band called "The Bacon Brothers", what next, "The Sausage Sisters"?

[TrevorR]

A few years ago I gave my wife a lovely necklace made from Gordon Giltrap's strings. He's a long term supporter of arthritis and MS research and his local ARC and MS group organiser also happened to be a jewelry hobbyist. So he gave her his strings and she wove them into beads, plaited them into braids and used those to make them. And 100% of the proceeds went to charity. My wife still loves them.

[Grangur]

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1463513117' post='3052023']
I'm more disturbed that they have strings from a band called "The Bacon Brothers", what next, "The Sausage Sisters"?
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The Bacon Brothers:


So NOW I know what he's known for, other than "EE" adverts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a9Ixfg2q1g
That song needs a bass.

Edited May 17, 2016 by Grangur

[darkandrew]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1463513967' post='3052032']
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a9Ixfg2q1g
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WTF?!😲

Edited May 17, 2016 by darkandrew