Nope, curation and restoration are entire hobbies / occupations themselves, and I don’t have any desire to own the particular objects that famous people that I like have owned.
One of the things that drives a lot of my synth purchasing is having access to the kinds of tools that were used to create the music that I appreciate. I don’t need to buy an original Roland TB-303 to understand the sequencer, a TD-3 does the job and is arguably experientially closer to a used 303 in the '80s. It’s a lightly built toy that’s hard to use but can sound amazing if you do things right.
Similarly, if I want to get inside Brian Eno’s head then literally any field recorder made in this millennium, two or more Zoom MS-70CDRs, a Syntrx and a Volca FM will do the job nicely. The Syntrx won’t sound at all like Eno’s Synthi did, but the UX is substantially similar, and I personally prefer the sound of the Syntrx to the Synthi.
I’ve been buying some relatively expensive stuff over the last few years, but my core interest is really the cheap stuff that punches well above its weight.
I did actually restore an old fiberglass racing sailboat a few years back and ran into the same problem: restoring boats and sailing boats are two different activities with their own set of skills. I want to be out on the water sailing, and get to do more of that if I crew on other people’s boats than if I restore old boats myself.
I expect someone from the hip hop world will want to pick up most of this gear. Kraftwerk was hugely influential to hip hop and techno, but there is a lot more money in the hip hop world, and that world seems to value cultural trophies far more than the techno world (which is more about the music and less about the lifestyle).
It would be cool if a wealthy Krautrock enthusiast from Shenzhen gets the gear since it would be much easier for them to source and fabricate replacement parts that are as authentic as possible. If you play around with the recent Chinese camera lenses, you can see a real love of photography that goes well beyond being a low cost supplier. I look forward to a world where people from all over the place are playing around with experimental music and the resonances it has with their local culture.
I’m unclear whether a sample from Ruckzuck or a cover was used, but something very similar was used as the opening music to the kid’s science show 3-2-1 Contact Newton’s Apple. So I can say with confidence that early Kraftwerk was the first band I liked.
But I’m still not nostalgic for their gear.
