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Costliest Music Instruments To Own

Every person has something to do to spend their free time; some like to dance, some like to garden, some cook and a gifted few love to play with musical instruments. Playing a musical instrument is not as easy as it looks; it requires a lot of skill and practice. For those who are gifted with this talent to listen to music with their heart and to love music with their life; with the proper training and dedication, music becomes their life.

There are many studies that show that music can also act like a healing touch. It is used to completely change the mood of the person and also helps with the depression. Music also relates to love and romance. A good set of musical instruments working together will make an extreme heavenly feeling.

Costliest Music Instruments To Own

You can only enjoy music when all these go hand in hand, else it will just be noise. Musical instruments are given equal importance as music. For a true music lover owning these instruments is indeed a matter of pride and privilege, especially when the price of the instrument are very high.

The following are a few of the costliest music instruments that any music lover would want to own. They differ from a wide range of music types and you could consider depending on what you want.

Violin
Violins are considered to be the most expensive music instruments till date. They have indeed been sold and auctioned out for very high prices. The main reason for such high pricing is indeed its melody and unique construction. The highest price for which this wonderful stringed instrument has been sold is close to 4 million dollars by Giuseppe Guareri.

Piano
This is yet another costliest music instruments that you will find. The cost of the piano depends on the type of wood that is used. The Crystal Music Piano has a handmade transparent crystal piano, which is the costliest pianos in the world. There are other costly pianos which are used by famous musicians. The costliest piano sold is about 2.8 million dollars by John Lennon.

Drum Sets
Though an average drum set could be quite cheap, the most expensive one can cost about 50,000 dollars because it is made up of gold. Keith Moon’s, a famous drummer of his time, sold half his silver kit for 252,487 dollars. This is also considered one of the most expensive music instruments that one can possess.

Acoustic Guitars:
Guitars is a very old musical instrument. One of the expensive music instruments has been manufactured by Eric Clapton in the 70s, he had one of the instruments merged with that of Stratocasters and auctioned it for about a million dollars. Fender Stratocaster was able to sell his guitars for 2 million dollars and another for about3.7 million dollars.

Trumpets
This is another costliest music instrument that you can own. The cost of the trumpet purely depends on the company that you are buying it from. Some of the famous companies are Monette, Taylor, Holton and King. The most expensive trumpet that has been sold is that of Dizzy Gillespie for about 5500 dollars.

These are some of the costliest music instruments that any music lover will love to own.

Story first published: Friday, October 24, 2014, 17:55 [IST]
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