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Once auctioneers become experienced in the auction profession, they usually develop their own style with regards to unique filler words, unique rhythm, and variable speed of delivering the chant. Typically, automobile auctioneers at dealer-only auctions and livestock auctioneers are known for their high-speed chants.
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The constant “auction chant” of the auctioneer sounded across the Paso Robles fairgrounds on Saturday morning. Spectators pack Junior Livestock Auction at California Mid-State Fair Skip to ...
The World Livestock Auctioneer Championship is an annual competition of livestock auctioneers who practice the auction chant typical of rural areas in the United States and Canada. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association and was first held in 1963. [1] Brian Curless won the competition in 2017.
An American auctioneer using auction chant at a livestock auction, November 2010. ... For example, in an auction with four items (W, X, Y and Z), ...
The sale of loose-leaf tobacco by auction on a warehouse floor had originated there just before the Civil War. The practice, which was called the "Danville System", was quickly and widely adopted. It is said that Langhorne originated the auctioneer's fast-talking "chant," which proved very effective at evoking a heightened sense of bidding, and ...
Lonny McCurdy started auctioneering at age 14, and now after almost a lifetime in the business, the 78-year-old has been awarded that industry’s highest honor.
Becoming mesmerized by the auction chant, he decides he wants to be an auctioneer, regularly practising the chant behind the family barn. Though his parents are initially displeased with his career choice, they eventually relent, but (not wanting their family name to be tarnished because of poor auctioneering skills) they send him to auction ...