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09-15-2009, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Denver-CO-USA | | hey this is cool too! I found on the related links.
3 Maggini contrabassos! did I spell that right??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dugbFOh3QZA
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09-15-2009, 05:51 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | IMO, ugly! I guess I'm just a traditional guy. 
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09-15-2009, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Taylors SC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by drurb  IMO, ugly! I guess I'm just a traditional guy. | Yeah, same here. I'm cool with different paint jobs and stuff, but don't mess with the shape. |
09-15-2009, 07:53 PM
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Retailer: Shen, Sun, older European | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Burlingame, California | | | Wasn't there a little feature on ths travel bass in the greatly missed magazine "Doublebassist" a while back? |
09-15-2009, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Swan Wasn't there a little feature on ths travel bass in the greatly missed magazine "Doublebassist" a while back? | I don't remember, but wow! yes you're right. I do miss that magazine so much. it's really sad we don't have that anymore. 
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09-16-2009, 03:17 PM
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Private Inventor - Bass Capos | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Cologne/Göttingen, Germany | | Wow! That's weird! Sounds really good though. I googled the name and found the bass on his website here.
I can't decide what is strangest, the tailpiece, the scroll, the F-holes, the neck joint, the FB shape...Oh man. Can anyone translate it for us? I really want to learn more, but my French vocabulary is limited to the topics of food and wine.
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09-16-2009, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Here's a version in English. |
09-16-2009, 04:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Re: the three Magginis -
Michele Fiore (luthier) did an article on them in 2008. Her site: http://www.allthingsbass.com/ - has the article in downloadable pdf form
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09-16-2009, 04:55 PM
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I played one of the Maggini's and the Gasparo in Brescia when I was there in 1981 with Pharoah Sanders, before they were resurrected. They were in sad shape at that time.
They were in very old trunks and the head of the music school where they were being hidden from a museum in Milan had to break the lock off of one to access it.
My late wife, Barbara and I heard the pounding from another room and wondered what was up.
They were unplayable at the time but I leaned over and kissed the upper bout of the Gasparo. They liked that. It was an honor for me.
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09-17-2009, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Montreal, QC, Canada | | | This looks really cool.
I like the adjustable neck. It appears the neck angle, over stand, projection, and string height can all be adjusted by turning knobs. The way the tailpiece is mounted looks interesting. And changing the string height via neck, as opposed to via bridge brings a new relationship that seems sweet;
(higher string height with lower tension, lower string height with higher tension.)
And the possibility to swap out necks..
Nice.
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