Second-hand guitars and keys on leboncoin via Telegram

Gear that musicians fight over rarely sits on leboncoin for long, so get each new matching ad as a Telegram card and be the one who messages the seller first.

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Search the instrument category by model

On leboncoin, choose the Instruments de musique category and type brand and model, such as „Gibson Les Paul“, „Korg Minilogue“ or „Roland TD-17“. Pick your region, or the whole of France for gear that ships safely, set a price ceiling and sort by most recent.
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Copy the address of the results page, add it to MXSender and select Telegram. If you also want a copy in your inbox, email can run on the same search.
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Open the ad from the card

New ads arrive as cards with the photo, title and price plus a button to the listing. Each search has its own hashtag, so your synth hunt and your pedal hunt share one chat without mixing.
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A gigging musician’s typical Saturday on leboncoin

A band splits up, a home studio gets sold off, a parent clears out a teenager’s abandoned drum kit. On France’s main classifieds site, that kind of sale appears without warning, and a well-priced vintage amp or a near-new stage piano draws messages from players and dealers alike.

Most sellers answer the earliest serious message, the one that names the instrument and proposes a time to try it. That is where a card buzzing in your pocket pays off.

Search words French sellers actually use

Ads are written in French. „Guitare électrique“, „basse“, „clavier“, „piano numérique“, „batterie électronique“, „ampli à lampes“ and „pédale d’effet“ find more than English terms. Model names work in any language and are the sharpest filter you have.

For a beginner instrument, a broad word plus a firm price cap is enough. For a specific vintage piece, use the series and accept a larger area, since good examples are scattered across the country.

Trying out a used instrument properly

Bring your own cable and, for a guitar, sight down the neck, check fret wear and listen for crackling pots. Play every key on a keyboard and test each output. Run an amp loud for a while. For drums, inspect shells, hardware and heads.

Ask for the serial number and the original receipt where possible. Pay after the try-out, face to face, and walk away from a rare instrument at a giveaway price whose seller wants payment before you see it.

Telegram as the band’s shared shortlist

Forward a card to your teacher or bandmates and they see the photo, price and link at once. Mute the searches for accessories so they arrive silently and only the main instrument makes noise.

leboncoin also has saved searches with alerts of its own. MXSender adds Telegram cards at the pace of your plan: Free checks one search every 30 minutes, Starter at $5.99 five searches every 10 minutes, Pro at $14.99 twenty searches with the fastest checks. Telegram and email are included in every plan.