{"id":10640,"date":"2021-10-29T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=10640"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:20:14","slug":"syd-barrett-guitar-sells-for-20k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2021\/10\/syd-barrett-guitar-sells-for-20k\/","title":{"rendered":"Syd Barrett guitar sells for \u00a320k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guitar once owned by Pink Floyd co-founder <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong> sold at auction yesterday for \u00a319,920 ($27,456 US).<\/p>\n<p>The 12-string Yamaha manufactured in 1969, sold by Barrett&#8217;s nephew, <strong>Mark Barrett<\/strong>, was expected to fetch \u00a35,000 to \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n<p>The winning bid was placed online from France.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds of the auction benefited two charities: Mind and the Arthur Rank Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>A garden table made by Syd sold to the same bidder for \u00a32,365. And a pair of lights from his basement studio went for \u00a3258.<\/p>\n<p>A Cambridgeshire High School for Boys photo from 1959 \u2014 featuring Syd, <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> and <strong>Storm Thorgerson \u2014<\/strong> along with a &#8217;61 program for &#8220;She Stoops to Conquer &#8221; featuring Syd as Tom Twist, sold for \u00a3744.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2021\/10\/syd-barrett-items-to-be-auctioned\/\">Read more about the auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guitar once owned by Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett sold at auction yesterday for \u00a319,920 ($27,456 US). The 12-string Yamaha manufactured in 1969, sold by Barrett&#8217;s nephew, Mark Barrett, was expected to fetch \u00a35,000 to \u00a310,000. The winning bid was placed online from France. Proceeds of the auction benefited two charities: Mind and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-other","category-personnel","category-syd-barrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10642,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions\/10642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}