Pink Floyds instrument shatters records at NYC sale becoming most expensive guitar ever sold at auction

It’s a bid that would leave most bank accounts “Comfortably Numb.”Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s legendary 1969 “Black Strat” shattered the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction, as it went for $14.5 million Thursday night at a New York City auction house, The Post has learned.The sale was made as part of Christie’s Jim Irsay Collection auction: a multi-day auction of music, movie and pop-culture memorabilia that once belonged to the late Indianapolis Colts owner. The “Money” guitarist’s axe fetched more than twice the previous record — which was set by Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set, sold for $6.1 million in 2020.A separate guitar played by Cobain in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video — a 1969 Fender Mustang — was also auctioned by Christie’s Thursday and went for $6.9 million, the most shelled out for any of the late grunge king’s instruments.Gilmour’s record-setting guitar was snatched up by an anonymous buyer after a 21-minute bidding war.The rock legend played it on the recording of seminal albums like “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1793) and “The Wall” (1979).“This was like the Super Bowl for this market,” auction attendee Thomas Scriven, 45, told The Post, “this is the biggest auction for music memorabilia.” Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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Never miss a story.“I came here initially to watch a friend of mine bid, but I’m a big guitar and music enthusiast,” added fellow attendee Shawn, 35, “and I think these are just icons and relics of an era that I hope I’ll see again — but maybe won’t.”Gilmour purchased the guitar right across the street from Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza auction house at Manny’s Music in 1970, reps said.Pink Floyd was on tour ...