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10-17-2005, 08:14 PM
|  | Velvet Strings Customer Service | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SWITZERLAND | | | Another bass, another opinion wanted....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1
What do you guys think?
I would like to go check it out, even if it is a 6 hours drive from me..
bass gurus, any opinions?
NUNO
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10-18-2005, 05:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Looks like a good old German flatback. For $2,000, I'd definatley check it out.
While you're at it, you might take a set of strings that you usually use. I usually do that when trying to give a bass every chance. Make sure the seller knows that there's a sound post with...if not, bring one with you. It doesn't have to be perfect....don't jam it in. Obviously it's easier and safer to do the sound post check on a flat-back because one end is
totally flat.
From reading your profile, looks like you are a jazz/swing kind of player. From that information, i'd guess you prefer that gut sound. As you can see, this bass has all steel...maybe bring a gut G and D.
Good luck, and let us know.
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11-02-2005, 11:23 AM
| | Velvet Strings Customer Service | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SWITZERLAND | | Hi Paul, at the end i got the bass  , i thought i would never make it, just a couple of days before i was suposed to go check the bass i went to the hospital with an infection in the, colon, so, not only i spent almost $2000 in medical care but i also couldnt go check the bass,anyway after several phone calls with the seller i decided to put $ on the bass, win the auction and just drive 9 hours each way to see if the bass was worth it...... at the end turns out that the bass sounds GREAT, and i bought it, still didnt pay the hospital, i guess they can wait, the bass couldnt, i will post some pictures and comments on a new thread later on, my wife couldnt believe i drove 18 hours for a bass that i didnt even knew it was worth a $0.01.
I just had the feeling...
thanks again
NUNO |
11-02-2005, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by basscrazy72 Hi Paul, at the end i got the bass , i thought i would never make it, just a couple of days before i was suposed to go check the bass i went to the hospital with an infection in the, colon, so, not only i spent almost $2000 in medical care but i also couldnt go check the bass,anyway after several phone calls with the seller i decided to put $ on the bass, win the auction and just drive 9 hours each way to see if the bass was worth it...... at the end turns out that the bass sounds GREAT, and i bought it, still didnt pay the hospital, i guess they can wait, the bass couldnt, i will post some pictures and comments on a new thread later on, my wife couldnt believe i drove 18 hours for a bass that i didnt even knew it was worth a $0.01.
I just had the feeling...
thanks again
NUNO | Well, it looks like you're a real man's bassist, NUNO! Who cares about a little $2,000.00 colon infection when you got a chance at a good bass! Congratulations Man!
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11-02-2005, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by basscrazy72 still didnt pay the hospital, i guess they can wait, the bass couldnt | Sounds like the right priority to me. I would have done the same thing. Hope your colon is ok, that could get to be a pain in the a$$.
Sorry, I could not resist
az
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