This sector addresses the collector, investor, and the professional musician. Instruments have to be considered a form of investment. Like other investments there are big differences in the quality of investment. When chosen correctly, instruments offer a couple of returns not common to other classes of investment vehicles.

1. Monetary return. You will not find double ROI's (return on investment), that is wishful thinking.  We compare the rare instrument collecting to a government issued bond. The issue date is a minimum of 5 to 10 years; returns for G8 (not banana republic) grade are around 3-5% return. Stability in value. This type of investment has a very long track record of being a solid investment. Another good compareable example for stability in investment would be diamonds. We are not talking here of a commodity item like gold or silver. Those fluctuate with various market factors, economic situations, and don't offer the rewards of owning a rare instrument.

The difference in instruments to the bonds are:

• a. Currency stability:  The instruments end up in different Markets if the currency spread is big enough to warrant a change in ownership. This means, that by world currency fluctuations, you can gain a return, while in the mean time having an actual asset. Unlike just trading money.
• b. Non linear growth: you can't hold an Instrument for 987 days and calculate the the increase in value.
• c. No classical dividends. It is not a stock or commodity that rises or falls on economic factors.
• d. Sales takes longer due to the market structure, but through our connections to the worlds biggest buyers we know we can bring you a profit, in the most reasonable amount of time.

The bottom line is. Value goes up slowly but surely. The prices do not dip. Mostly due to the fact that the market is small but at the same time global. Even in the recent crisis, as in 89 and 73 sales only slowed, prices did not drop and quality instruments where not affected at all.

2. Dividends are paid in the form of enjoyment and advertisement, not to mention a varifiable asset. Banking dividends in dollars and cents is a solitary enjoyment, if you can even call it that.

3. Preserving a portion of history, the prestege of owning one of the worlds truely valuable and rare artifacts, and being a patron of true craftsmanship is a rare feeling few enjoy. All that and the ablity to be a patron of the arts, or have your instrument played in a world class piece, is a pride in ownership unparalleled.

One of the most unique advantages of this type of rare istrument collecting or investing is that there is only a finite number of instruments availible at a given time, also in actual circulation, and ever made. This number of these instruments goes down over time, not up. So your investment can only become more valuable if there are less around. There are few other investments that can say this with 100% certainty. Even diamonds, there are more being mined every day.
Serving audio has specialized in investment grade instruments. We are offer consultancy in all aspects of the investment sector, from purchase, over marketing, to sale. Servingaudio can advise you on every step of the investment. Contact us now for access to our private offerings.