FS incredible midi guitar museum

Son & heir Richard is needing to raise cash at the moment and was saying he might sell his midi guitar rig. This covers one wall of his studio and includes stuff I know nothing about, but at least one Ibanez midi guitar, one Roland midi guitar, one Roland (?) midi bass, one other midi guitar - not sure about that though; one early and wonderful sounding analogue non-midi sound modulator (to me, the pick of the stuff - pre-midi electronic guitar, fat organic sound!); a couple of later midi controllers; the bass midi thing - spare cables (some imported or researched); flight cases - the works. I think one guitar only has been modified with Dimarzio or other replacement analog pickups, otherwise everything is original and much of it has instructions.

This stuff is not cheap and I have no idea why he collected it all together since he plays keyboards, not guitar, but just fell for the idea of these instruments. The only item which is remotely tatty is one of the flight cases; the rest is all in studio condition or close.

The kit is:

Red G77 and GR77b - a bass guitar in the 'classic' 80s style Roland adopted with the stabilser bar and effectively a JX8p synthesizer. The base unit is 110V but in good condition.

Silver G-707 with GR700 - lead guitar styled to match the G77, excellent guitar but a poor synth unit based on the JX3p. The base unit has slight cosmetic damage (small dent and a cracked post on the end cheek, glued but still 'broken', is UK voltage and works well.

Burgundy Metallic G-505 with EMG active humbucker in place of first single coil and GR300 analogue base unit (true analogue synth, no pitch to MIDI, tracks like a dream but very limited). 110v with a home-made adapter box.

Prices are £1,500, £900 and £900 respectively. All have cables, the lead guitars have copied manuals, all guitars have cases. Cables are all original Roland, 2 of them are 'new'.

As for 'why', consider it an attempt to actually understand what my father was doing with music whilst using the fact that I could trigger sustained pads to mask my appalling lack of ability, plus the 80s models look excellent. Given my total lack of hobbies or interests other than a consumer-esque interest in cars seemingly based purely on acquisition, the studio seems to have been a positive focus for my energies despite a total lack of time to record anything. I figure it's time to accept that I really will never do anything with any of it at all, and the whole purpose of life is to exist to work and then die.

More info here:
http://www.dmc12.demon.co.uk/music/. Amongst the dross you'll see an incredibly rare Allen & Heath Inpulse One drum machine in fully working order - possibly the only one left, though I still have no sample tapes for it.