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SKINNER Fine Musical Instruments May 1, 2011 Sale 2544B Boston Fine Musical Instruments specialist in charge David Bonsey 508.970.3224 General Inquiries: [email protected] auction 2544B Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 12 noon 63 Park Plaza Boston, Massachusetts preview Friday, April 29, 2011 12 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 30, 2011 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 2011 9 to 10:30 a.m. absentee bidding Tel: 617.874.4318 Fax: 617.350.5429 Online: www.skinnerinc.com general inquiries 617.350.5400 View all lots online at www.skinnerinc.com cover : 55, inside back cover : 186, back cover : 1 Register… Preview… and Bid Live Online Preview Auctions Online Bid Live Online with SkinnerLive! Flip through the pages o our interactive virtual catalogues, Get the live auction experience rom your home or oice or view all lots in an upcoming auction to browse with SkinnerLive! Register in advance or an auction to bid through images and detailed lot inormation. 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Email [email protected] to join. www.skinnerinc.com table of contents 1 1 Auction & Specialist Inormation 2 2 Web Site & Online Bidding 4 Provenance 5 5 Event Inormation 6 6 Lots 1-25 Pinkburst Lots 27 Lots 26-453 101 List o Makers 102 Glossary o Terms 103 Upcoming Auction Announcementt 104 Conditions o Sale 105 Absentee Bid Form 106 Company Directors & Specialty Departments 107 Administrative Sta & Client Services 108 Map & Driving Directions 109 Catalogue Subscription Form Please Note: All lots sold subject to our Conditions of Sale. Please refer to page 104 of this catalogue for the full terms and conditions governing your purchase. Copyright © Skinner, Inc. 2011 All rights reserved Provenance Thomas Binkley (1931-1995) Thomas Binkley was an American musicologist, lutenist, and player o early wind instruments. Ater graduating rom the University o Illinois and studies in musicology at the University o Munich, he ounded the Studio der Frühen Musik in 1959, touring the world and cultivating interest in the perormance and scholarship o early music. In 1972, the Studio moved to Basle, Switzerland, to take up residence at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 1978, Mr. Binkley returned to the U.S. as a visiting proessor at Stanord University and in 1979, became director o the Early Music Institute at the Jacobs School o Music o Indiana University, remaining until his retirement in January 1995. He authored many denitive articles on perormance practice, and made more than 40 recordings with the Studio der Frühen Musik, or which he was awarded many European prizes, including the Edison Award, the Grand Prix du Disque, and the Preis der deutscher Schallplattenkritik. Source: Palmer, Larry: ‘Thomas Binkley,’ Grove Music Online. Steve Lacy (1934-2004) Universally recognized as the champion o the soprano sax in modern jazz, instrumentalist and composer Steve Lacy was a major infuence and inspiration to everyone who has perormed on the instrument, including John Coltrane. Ater beginning his career at age sixteen in Dixieland and Kansas City-style jazz groups, he became involved with the avant-garde movement, perorming and recording with Cecil Taylor, Gil Evans, Thelonius Monk, Roswell Rudd, and many others. Ater tours o Europe and South America with Kenny Drew and Enrico Rava, he moved to Paris in 1970 where he led his amous sextet which included his wie, singer and cellist Irene Aebi. MrMr. Lacy also specialized in solo saxophone perormances o his own works and those o Thelonius Monk. He was the perennial winner o Downbeat magazine’s Critics Poll or Best Soprano Saxophone, was inducted into the Chevaliers des Arts etet des Lettres in 1989, and was a 1992 recipient o the MacArthur Fellowship. His collaborations also included those with the Kronos Quartet, pianist Mal Waldron, and many works in ballet, dance, lm, and poetry in Europe and the United States. John French Segall, a.k.a. Jay Jay French (1952-) As a guitarist, independent producer, and ounding member o the band Twisted Sister, Mr. French has worked or over three decades in music, garnering sales o over 12 million records, including 39 gold and platinum records rom eight dierent countries. His management credits include such diverse artists as Sevendust, songwriters David Forman and Andrew Fortier, blues guitar legend Johnny Gale, The Sound o Urchin, The Step Kings, and Fred Sargolini o New YYork’s DJ Duo Ming & FS. MrMr. French has chosen Skinner to collaborate in The Pinkburst Project, the rst o its kind to raise awareness and support or the research and treatment o uveitis, a disease which is the leading cause o blindness among American girls. MrMr. French has summoned the support and cooperation o the leading American and British builders o ne guitars and ampliers or an auction o one-o-kind collectible instruments, all incorporating his unique “Pinkburst” design. 44 SKINNER invites you to a Reception & Extended Auction Preview featuring live music from the Tomoko Omura Quartet Friday, April 29th, 2011 5:30 Reception/Preview to 7:00 p.m. SKINNER Boston 63 Park Plaza Boston, MA R.S.V.P. to 617.350.5400 Held in conjunction with a preview of Skinner’s May 1st Auction of Fine Musical Instruments 55 Welcome to the Pinkburst Collection o Guitars and Amplifers Skinner is proud to collaborate with Jay Jay French o TTwisted Sister to bring the Pinkburst Collection o guitars and ampliers to auction. The Pinkburst Project was created to raise awareness about uveitis, a rare, but serious disease that is the leading cause o blindness among American girls. Inspired by his daughter Samantha’s ght against uveitis, and his iconic “pink sunburst” Les Paul guitar, Jay Jay brought some o the world’s most important manuacturers o guitars and ampliers together to create this one-o-a-kind collection. Highlights include custom-made guitars with unique tone, playability, and design rom Gibson, Fender, Paul Reed Smith, Epiphone, Gretsch, Ruokangas, and Martin, and custom ampliers rom Marshall, Fender, Vox, Mesa, Orange, Hartke, and Diamond. Usually highly competitive, the world’s top makers put aside their dierences in order to support this worthy cause, creating these abulous instruments with the Pinkburst design. “The frst o the Pinkbursts is actually a Gibson Custom Shop re-creation o the original 1978 Les Paul that I had painted Pinkburst. It weighed nearly 10 1/2 pounds. When Twisted Sister re-united, I didn’t want to carry that kind o weight so I had the Custom Shop make a copy o the original one. I played this Custom Shop one or several world tours over the last 5 years. My name appears in pearl inlay just as it did on the original Pinkburst. Finally, this guitar was shipped around to most o the other manuacturers involved with the Pinkburst Project so that the respective custom shops could make sure that the guitar fnishes matched.” -- Jay Jay French Proceeds rom the sale o the collection will beneft the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation. www.uveitis.org Pinkburst Photography: John Peden 66 11 22 1.1. 2.2. American Guitar, Gibson Custom Shop, Nashville, 2003, Model American Guitar, Gibson Custom Shop, Nashville, 2010, Model Les Paul, serial number CS 31712, expressly or Jay Jay French, the SG, serial number CS8624, expressly or the Pinkburst Project, with headstock inlaid with pearl, with Pinkburst Project TKL custom case. Pinkburst Project TKL custom case. $7,500-9,000 $3,500-5,000 online bidding at www.skinnerinc.com 77 33 3.3. American Guitar, Gibson Custom Shop, Nashville, 2010, Model ES-335, serial number A-38092, expressly or the Pinkburst Project, with Pinkburst Project TKL custom case. $4,500-6,000 88 additional information and photos at www.skinnerinc.com 44 55 4.4. 5.5. American Guitar, Gibson Custom Shop, Bozeman, 2010, Model American Guitar, Fender Custom Shop, Corona, 2010, Model J-200, serial number 02799011, width o lower bout 16 7/8 in., Stratocaster, by John Cruz, serial number JC 1140, signed on expressly or the Pinkburst Project, with Pinkburst Project TKL custom the back o the headstock, expressly or the Pinkburst Project, with case. Pinkburst Project TKL custom case. $4,500-6,000 $3,250-4,000 online bidding at www.skinnerinc.com 99 66 77 6.6. 7.7. American Guitar, Fender Custom Shop, Corona, 2010, Model American Bass Guitar, Fender Custom Shop, Corona, 2010, Model Telecaster, by John Cruz, serial number JC 980, signed on the back Jazz Bass, by John Cruz, serial number JC 1462, signed on the back o the headstock, expressly or the Pinkburst Project, with Pinkburst o the headstock, expressly or the Pinkburst Project, with Pinkburst Project TKL custom case.