{"id":12431,"date":"2025-11-06T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:11:22","slug":"david-gilmours-black-strat-to-be-auctioned-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2025\/11\/david-gilmours-black-strat-to-be-auctioned-again\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour&#8217;s Black Strat to be auctioned again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jim-irsay-collection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jim-irsay-collection.png\" alt=\"Jim Irsay Collection logo\" width=\"346\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jim-irsay-collection.png 346w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jim-irsay-collection-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The Black Strat,&#8221; <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong>&#8216;s fabled Fender Stratocaster guitar he played on so many classic Pink Floyd recordings and on stage, will be going on the auction block (again) in March.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Floyd guitarist auctioned the instrument along with a bevvy of other guitars in June 2019 raising $21.5 million for <strong>ClientEarth<\/strong>, an organization that funds attorneys and other experts to fight climate change. The Black Strat alone sold for $3,975,000, purchased by <strong>Jim Irsay<\/strong>, owner of the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christie&#8217;s <\/strong>New York is now scheduled to sell it again as part of Irsay&#8217;s enormous collection going on the block following his death May 21. The collection will be auctioned over a series of events beginning in March.<\/p>\n<p>Other instruments included in the auction were owned and played by all four <strong>Beatles<\/strong>, <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>, <strong>Prince<\/strong>, <strong>Jerry Garcia<\/strong>, <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, <strong>Kurt Cobain<\/strong>, <strong>Eddie Van Halen<\/strong>, <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>Bo Diddley<\/strong>, <strong>Janis Joplin<\/strong>, <strong>Elton John<\/strong>,<strong> John Coltrane<\/strong>,<strong> Miles Davis<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Morrison<\/strong>, and dozens more.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour bought the Black Strat at <strong>Mannie&#8217;s Music<\/strong> in New York City in May 1970, and played it extensively through the \u201970s and into the \u201980s on recording such as \u201cThe Dark Side of the Moon\u201d (1973), \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d (1975), \u201cAnimals\u201d (1977) and \u201cThe Wall\u201d (1979).<\/p>\n<p>Free public exhibitions will accompany the sales at Christie&#8217;s, which is located at 20 Rockefeller Plaza. <a href=\"https:\/\/press.christies.com\/christies-new-york-to-offer-the-jim-irsay-collection-in-a-series-of-sales-in-2026\">Read more about the auctions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Black Strat,&#8221; David Gilmour&#8216;s fabled Fender Stratocaster guitar he played on so many classic Pink Floyd recordings and on stage, will be going on the auction block (again) in March. The\u00a0Floyd guitarist auctioned the instrument along with a bevvy of other guitars in June 2019 raising $21.5 million for ClientEarth, an organization that funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-gilmour","category-events","category-merchandise","category-other","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431","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=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}