Hi everyone. New member here, first time posting. I have a little violin shop/school on Whidbey Island, WA and a friend has asked for help with selling his National Grand Console and it's a little outside my wheelhouse.
It's in very good condition, with all its original parts (legs, case, cable) also in good condition. It has a DeArmond volume pedal, which also works. The only immediate flaw I can spot is a volume difference in the consoles. According to him, it's only had one owner who played it- a former client's mother who played it in church way back in the day.
I'm looking for advice on pricing and posting it for sale here. Here are some pictures:
Looks like a volume/tone pedal... rock it side-to-side and it changes the tone. Carco brought one exactly like it to Dallas one year and it drove me nuts when people tried to use it... you have to be aware when your tone is muffled because you forgot and your foot twisted the pedal! I disconnected the capacitor on my Fender vol/tone, just couldn't deal with it, takes some practice.
A lot of the value of the guitar is going to depend on whether it has a bad pickup. If someone's put bronze strings on one neck that would cause some output loss... if you have an ohmmeter you could measure the ohms out of the guitar while switching between necks. Pickups can be re-wound no problem but it's a couple hundred dollars deal.
I'd say it's worth 1200-1400$ as it sits... looks to be in very nice shape.
Thanks for your input, Stephen. That's about what I figured, too. A shop in Seattle tested the output and I believe that their consensus was that it's a problem with the pickup.
