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02-05-2011, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | ***!! FrankenUpright
Tell me this upright didn't come out of a factory like this, http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instr...-352349725.htm
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02-05-2011, 08:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: downtown | | Actually it came from the factory like that.  Don't be confused, it is not a classical double bass, it is an upright bass used in some europian countries for their folk music. And yes, they have frets! |
02-05-2011, 09:28 PM
|  | Quatre-cordes | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA /El Paso TX | | what do you think about that one then?  |
02-05-2011, 09:32 PM
| | Temp Banned (TOS Violation) | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stouffville, Ontario | | Wow.  Haha, nice frets. Wonder how it sounds like. $2500 eh?
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02-05-2011, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by joeyl  what do you think about that one then? | I've played one of those briefly with a local russian trio. It's called "contrabass balalaika" and has 3 strings and tuned like a bass guitar - EAB. Frets too. It requires different technique - you "double" your fingers (index+middle and ring+pinky) and this gives you 2 stronger "fingers". And you need that. Neither double-bass nor bass guitar technique works well.
But it's fun and sounds pretty good.
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02-05-2011, 09:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boston & Arizona, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bass_snake Wow. Haha, nice frets. Wonder how it sounds like. $2500 eh?
Fred | Probably soft and undefined considering the flat top and tiny bridge. Do those even have a standard bass bar and sound post or do they have something different inside?
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02-05-2011, 10:31 PM
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02-06-2011, 12:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson just for kicks, i'm going to move this to the DB forum | Where's the fun in that?
Not questioning Your desicion, just asking.
I mean, folks over there (here  ) on the dark side have most likely seen or even played fretted "DB's", but on the side of light, a fretted DB is going to raise all kinds of hell.
Methinks anyway.
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02-06-2011, 12:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Downunderwonder | Looks like a reworked Strunal. |
02-06-2011, 02:05 AM
| | | Framus makes fretted DBs for ages; its for certain types of umm how do you call sort of national pop music, like county & western but european one lol, oberkrain, alps music etc hehe
The one in the ad is reworked DB, but originally its called berda, i.a.: 
It's original ethnic instrument, from family of mandolins(well, tamburitza, to be exact), not from violins like DB.The example above has DB headstock, but older ones dont. Usually it's played with a pick.
Here's nice old berda on left pic, on right is berda player in action (he has octave string, which is also not common) =P  
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02-06-2011, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | what the *!
Where's the Berda sub forum? EuroEthniks rebel! UB played by pick demand special place free from discrimination of snobby trad UB players 
2500 NZ smackers is about 1900 US at the moment. That's pretty serious money for a bass.
I wonder how it came to be in New Zealand. Not like there are many EuroFolk musicians hereabouts. That hairdo and getup would get you turned around at Immigration.
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02-09-2011, 02:14 PM
| | | | Berda
Hello,
Actually in this picture is current version of this instrument. Previous posts are showing older versions in obsolete tuning systems... Currently it is tuned GDAE, played with a pick and usually has sound with much more punch than double bass (and somewhat less sustain). Inside there are some differences compared to double bass (no tone bar)...
I play this instrument, and also repair and make instruments, so feel free to ask if Euro (Slavic) ethnic instruments are of some interest. Unfortunatly English is not my native language, so i must appologise for any spelling and grammar errors.
Best regards,
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