When you’ve ever needed to personal a chunk of the magic from pioneering, legendary digital band Kraftwerk, you are in luck, as a result of virtually 500 objects from Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider are being auctioned in a few weeks in Nashville, Tennessee on the Musicians Corridor of Fame and Museum, 401 Homosexual Avenue.
The public sale, hosted by Julien’s Auctions, options objects from Schneider’s huge assortment of musical gear, private objects, band memorabilia, clothes, paintings, furnishings from his dwelling and studios, objects from his assortment of historic woodwind and brass devices, and far more. I browsed by way of the objects on the public sale web site and, wow, there’s a lot cool stuff! I noticed turntables, keyboards, drum machines, accordions, mixers, transformers, tape decks, brass devices, lamps, oboes, and a variety of different gear. They’re even auctioning off a 1964 Volkswagen van (Sort 2/T1 Kastenwagen) that was owned and pushed by Schneider and featured within the biographical movie, “Eight Miles Excessive” (2007), in addition to the Panasonic highway bike he rode within the video for “Tour De France.”
Consequence of Sound studies that the public sale is in accordance with Schneider’s needs concerning what ought to occur to his belongings upon his demise:
“This public sale fulfills Florian’s handwritten will for his devices and private assortment to proceed residing past him,” in keeping with a press assertion concerning the late Schneider, who died in 2020. “He at all times believed that they’re meant to be performed and shared — not left unused or gathering mud in storage. He needed his gear to search out their strategy to individuals who would actually worth them: musicians, collectors, and people impressed by the artwork of sound.”
The catalog totaling practically 500 objects additionally consists of choose memorabilia from completely different phases of his life, providing a glimpse past the devices themselves. It has been organized in collaboration together with his closest members of the family.
Julien’s Auctions describes the significance of Kraftwerk to the event of digital music:
It’s unattainable to inform the story of digital music with out inspecting the pioneering beats, grooves, and efficiency aesthetics of Dusseldorf’s Kraftwerk and its founding member, Florian Schneider. Shaped in 1970, the band introduced an experimental method to pop music, leading to among the most progressive and commercially profitable digital albums of the mid-Nineteen Seventies into the Nineteen Eighties: Autobahn, Trans-Europe Specific, The Man-Machine, and Pc World.
Now’s your probability to personal a chunk of music historical past!
The public sale shall be held on November nineteenth, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. CT / 11:00 am ET, and bids may be positioned on-line, by telephone, in individual, or by way of absentee bid. Take a look at all the cool stuff on provide and study extra concerning the public sale and about Florian Schneider on the public sale web site.
Beforehand:
• Overview: Kraftwerk: Future Music From Germany
• Kraftwerk-themed wedding ceremony was spectacular
• I noticed Kraftwerk’s 3D Tour at Purple Rocks Amphitheater a few nights in the past, and it blew my thoughts
• Postcards from Kraftwerk’s pc world
• Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, RIP
• Kraftwerk’s connection to R&B and black DJs in America