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06-09-2009, 11:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Good ISB Convention stuff.
Good convention stuff from Molly and The Monkey. All bass booths. http://s318.photobucket.com/albums/m...view=slideshow
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06-10-2009, 12:34 AM
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06-10-2009, 12:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Orlando, FL | | | Isn't that the AES bass with the wood Arnold said was so difficult to work with that he would never build another one? |
06-10-2009, 03:01 AM
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French luthier Jean Auray, playing a bass made by Canadian luthier Mario Lamarre, in the makers competition room, at the ISB.
Had a great time. Lots to see and hear. |
06-10-2009, 04:21 AM
| | | | Please go by and visit Jean Auray's booth . . . he built a new bass for me, which I have not played yet—haven't seen it yet! Let me know what you think . . . send photos, anything. Thanks! |
06-10-2009, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by DrBassie  Isn't that the AES bass with the wood Arnold said was so difficult to work with that he would never build another one? | I don't think so, Doc. Arnold's is a different (Montagnana) pattern. It does look like the quilted big-leaf maple back and ribs. Arnold sold the original to an old student of mine, Lou Pappas. Unless Arnold's more of a whiz than I thought, this must be by another maker. As you say, that stuff is supposed to be almost impossible to work with.
I'm sure Molly and the Monkey will straighten us out.
Thanks for doing this for us, you two. Me in my bathroom here in Colorado and Matthew in his down under. 
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06-10-2009, 06:27 AM
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Bass Hobby'ist | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Southern PA | | Thanks Paul for starting a new thread. I was so tired last night I did not know where the proper spot was for the slide show. 
I will say the convention was overwhelming. I can’t decide if we were two kids in a candy store or two bulls’s in a china shop. The basses are amazing, the people are wonderful and the venue was very nice. We have never experience anything like it and to see so many OLD basses…from the 1600, 1700 and 1800’s at prices toping $185,000. And to see so many new basses at the maker’s competition was equally as thrilling.
The slide show does NOT encompass all the vendors…I know we missed some and at some I forgot to take pictures. I’ll edit things as I have time…which seems to be in short supply right now.
A special thanks to Arnold and Wil for greeting us so warmly and taking time out of their busy day to talk with us. We also met Ken Smith, Ike Harris, Forester and CT. I yelled hello to Eric at Upton from a far (they were quite busy) and others that I am sure I have missed. 
One of the high lights of the day was listening to a 14 year old young man, Aidan, play an impromptu concert on Arnold’s ergo bass…he was so pumped his feet did not touch the floor the rest of the day…COOL! For me the tone woods, the colors and shapes of the vintage basses are amazing. There are so many unique designs…the possibilities are only limited by our minds.
Oh almost forgot…hearing a room full of basses (as many as 8 at a time) being played (tested) simultaneously with a bow by so many players is…well…different.  |
06-10-2009, 06:58 AM
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A bump, in interest of timely-ness.
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06-10-2009, 06:59 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | | Hey Molly and Monkey-- thanks so much for that slide show! So kind of you to take the time to do that. Thanks for bringing me a bit closer to the convention. Wish I could be there!
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06-10-2009, 07:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | +1. Those of us who couldn't make it are living through you, vicariously.
Your pictures of lovely bass after lovely bass are a real inspiration. Thank you for this! |
06-10-2009, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by DrBassie Isn't that the AES bass with the wood Arnold said was so difficult to work with that he would never build another one? | The bass in question, was made by Don Gorman.
Here is a photo of the makers competition room. They only let a certain number of people in the room at once, because the room was so small. Once inside, you could play any bass you pleased.
They obscured the names of the makers, for the voting reasons. I would have liked known whose bass I was playing  (some basses were easy to figure out who the craftsman was, like Arnold's bass).
I was surprised by the wide variety of tones each bass had. All different sound wise.  |
06-10-2009, 07:40 AM
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I think I'm in love with an upper right rib and C bout. Lord have mercy.
Maker #8217 picture. Bass is laying on the carpet.
Bathroom, here I come!
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06-10-2009, 07:43 AM
| | | | Nice slide show! Thanks for posting, Molly. |
06-10-2009, 07:49 AM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton I think I'm in love with an upper right rib and C bout. Lord have mercy.
Maker #8217 picture. Bass is laying on the carpet.
Bathroom, here I come! | I'll be in the stall next to you. Hey, no foot-tapping! 
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06-10-2009, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Seattle, WA | | | I think the Don Gorman bass is the twin of Calvin Marks' bass. He has some pictures of it on KSB.
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06-10-2009, 09:03 AM
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Bass Hobby'ist | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Southern PA | | Thanks CT…you are absolutely correct on the ID of this bass. This bass and two others were in a corner vendor spot down stairs. The booth was labeled as Nnick Lloyd basses but the basses were Don Gorman.
Forester thought this was an AES bass from a far so I am glad CT could confirm its identity. This bass has smallish upper bouts with a huge “bootie” and is very strking from the back…no Jennifer Lopez comments please.   |
06-10-2009, 09:16 AM
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For us in Europe, avisit in the ISB show is like an unfulfilled dream. Thank you for sharing with us these lovely photos.
Mike |
06-10-2009, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by MIKMAN For us in Europe, avisit in the ISB show is like an unfulfilled dream. Thank you for sharing with us these lovely photos.
Mike | +1!
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06-10-2009, 09:53 AM
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06-10-2009, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by MIKMAN For us in Europe, avisit in the ISB show is like an unfulfilled dream. Thank you for sharing with us these lovely photos.
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