We know what your thinking, don’t do it. After being a musician for a few years you can’t help but collect a lot of instruments. For instance, I started playing snare drum and from there expanded to drum set. While I was learning how to play drums my brother started taking guitar lessons. Just about the time he lost interest in playing, I picked up his axe and began to play guitar. Of course from there it was only a matter of time before I started to collect a number of guitars and my music instrument collection spun out of control from there

If your like me, at some point you will get the idea that you could sell off the instruments that you aren’t using to make some extra scratch. These days everyone can use working cash and it’s always tempting to unload your unwanted gear. But take it from me, this is potentially the WORST MISTAKE you will ever make. Hang onto your gear, trust me, it’s worth way more to you if you still play. You never know when your going to want to pickup that instrument that you haven’t been playing and the cost is so great to go back out and buy it again.

The reason I bring this up is that I just went through one of these struggles. I have a vintage Roger’s Power Tone Drum Set with Dyna-sonic Snare that I’ve had in storage for a few years. Recently I had to take it out of storage and find a new home for it so I considered just selling it instead. After thinking through my options, I decided to keep the drums. My main reason was that they were worth more to me to not sell them. If I were lucky, (in the condition they are in) I could get ~$300 at most for my drums. But if I were to decided I wanted a new set down the road to replace them I’d need to outlay at least $2000 to get back all the hardware I’d need. So while I’m not playing the drums at the moment, it just makes sense to hang onto them.

Don’t you agree?