BLASTED DISEASE
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:19 pm
One of my longest serving pupils has recently been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. I won't name him out of respect to him and his family, but he loves the steel guitar as much as anyone that I have ever known. He complained to me of stomach pains and I suggested that he might be suffering with a stomach ulcer and to get it checked out. They opened him up last week and discovered the worst. His wife rang me as I was driving back to Southampton from Yorkshire on Monday and asked if I could sell his beloved Emmons push pull. They needed the cash quickly as he is in a private ward in a private hospital. She asked me if I could get £1200 for it, and I said that I would guarantee to get more than that even if I had to buy it myself.
I put it on this forum last night in the For Sale section, and had 4 people contact me. The guitar is as new - as if it had just come out of the Emmons factory. I got a pretty fair offer for it so they are happy, but if I'd have had more time I could probably have got its true value. In these days of bank transfer, the funds are now in their bank account.
The point of my post is that we just don't know what is round the corner. One minute our lives are steady and comfortable, and the next there is drama, worry and uncertainty.
I put it on this forum last night in the For Sale section, and had 4 people contact me. The guitar is as new - as if it had just come out of the Emmons factory. I got a pretty fair offer for it so they are happy, but if I'd have had more time I could probably have got its true value. In these days of bank transfer, the funds are now in their bank account.
The point of my post is that we just don't know what is round the corner. One minute our lives are steady and comfortable, and the next there is drama, worry and uncertainty.
