Looking For a Wurly Sustain Pedal

Iamkellen · August 05, 2012, 10:35:26 PM

Looking for a Wurly sustain pedal. I picked up this 200a on vacation in Florida with my mom just by chance! (She was psyched to drive it back) It needs a sustain pedal though. Hoping to not go the VV 160 dollar route, but maybe ordering some C stock legs from them.
Let me know if you've got a sustain pedal that I can start stepping on! Condition isn't a huge issue to me!

Tim Hodges · August 06, 2012, 03:08:52 AM

Quote from: Iamkellen on August 05, 2012, 10:35:26 PM
Looking for a Wurly sustain pedal. I picked up this 200a on vacation in Florida with my mom just by chance! (She was psyched to drive it back) It needs a sustain pedal though. Hoping to not go the VV 160 dollar route, but maybe ordering some C stock legs from them.
Let me know if you've got a sustain pedal that I can start stepping on! Condition isn't a huge issue to me!

Can I ask how much you paid for it?

Iamkellen · August 06, 2012, 06:24:57 PM

got it for 200.... tee hee hee

Tim Hodges · August 07, 2012, 01:49:11 AM

Quote from: Iamkellen on August 06, 2012, 06:24:57 PM
got it for 200.... tee hee hee

Wow great score!!

Peacefrog35 · August 10, 2012, 05:32:08 PM

Congrats!! Wow, I just got one last week for $300 with legs. I thought that was a good deal, of course, I still do. Its in great shape too. I did just get a VV pedal,but its a really great pedal and worth the $$ for it IMO. It works perfectly and looks the part too. Now I've got a great beauty and in great cond and still all for under$500. I'm stoked!

pianotuner steveo · August 10, 2012, 08:46:17 PM

$160 for a brand new pedal is very reasonable. I remember before people were making new pedals, used pedals were fetching that much or more. I think over $200 was common for a while if I remember correctly.

Abraham · August 10, 2012, 08:52:17 PM

$300-$200?? hate you guys...

pianotuner steveo · August 11, 2012, 10:23:05 AM

I hate to tell you this Abraham, but over the years i have gotten 2 free wurlitzers, and bartered piano tunings for a Rhodes. I paid less than $100 each for many other Rhodes and Wurlis over the years, but those days are long gone....

One of the free Wurlitzers was sitting on the side of the road waiting for trash collection. Legs and all. And it WORKED.

The other one was sitting in a barn and had a mouse nest in it. That one did not work, but I fixed it.

Quote from: Abraham on August 10, 2012, 08:52:17 PM
$300-$200?? hate you guys...

Peacefrog35 · August 11, 2012, 07:01:52 PM

A wurly waiting for the trash pick up....just criminal. It's funny Steve, I've heard several stories like this of various old boards, espeically Hammonds and rhodes. I knew someone that picked up an A100 sitting in an alley. I guess there was a period of time in the not so distant past these vintage keys fell out of favor and were just considered old. I guess people figured thowing it away was a better alternative than keeping a big piece of gear that likely wasn't going to sell.

Abraham · August 11, 2012, 08:12:41 PM

I paid $2500 for my suitcase 2 years ago, and my (back then) non working 200-A took me around $800 plus $400 for shipping overseas last year. And believe me, for Europe those prices were a STEAL, and I wont sell any of them for twice as much now. A couple months ago I was offered $3000 for the wurly alone and I refused... now things gone worst I'd think twice before refusing such an offer thoug...

pianotuner steveo · August 11, 2012, 10:18:11 PM

Less than 10 years ago I was having trouble getting $400 for an UNchopped 206... I think I even ended up selling one for under $250, regulated, cleaned up, and tuned......

I had a guy give me a hard time about asking $425 for a near mint mark 1 before I ever heard of ebay ( but I think it existed)

Ben Bove · August 13, 2012, 12:29:19 PM

Besides the demand being much higher now, the biggest thing that I think helped to solidify the value of gear is the internet. There is so much information available, ebay, craigslist etc to compare prices to - you can't really find someone that doesn't take 2 minutes to look up what it is they have.

If someone's parents for example left them a keyboard they know nothing about, instead of listing in the newspaper to "come get it," they can go online look it up and oh wow, it's worth $1000!

Iamkellen · August 14, 2012, 03:22:04 PM

I think that's a great point. Every time I've scored a killer deal on a Hammond it has always been from an elderly person who has had it for a long time and hasn't looked into the value.

Often it seems that when someone's gotten an instrument from their parents who have passed on or something like that, they'll look up the value and often ask the highest price that they found for a pristine example on eBay. Then you've got to talk them down and reminnd them of this flaw and that issue, and they start to think you're tricking them!

pretty whacky. I just wish I could find a clav for under $2000.

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