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10-22-2006, 09:12 PM
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Yes, friends, this bass belongs to the great Scottish bassist Strangy, known for his work with The Klingonz, Demented Are Go, King Kurt, and The Dead Kings. It's an old Czech Stradivarius modified with custom tailpiece, plexiglass bridge from Bulletproof Bassworks (which he says makes it quite a bit louder). It has a Schaller mag pickup with fingerboard piezo, and it's strung with Thomastik Superflexibles.
You can read about it here, but in the meantime here's a picture: 
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10-22-2006, 09:55 PM
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10-23-2006, 02:12 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM ... (which he says makes it quite a bit louder). It has a Schaller mag pickup ... | So - if it's always being amplified with a magnetic pickup,why bother with any modifications to make the acoustic sound louder.... 
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10-23-2006, 03:08 AM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | I like the P-40 warhawk paintjob. The tire rubber bumpers are a nice touch. It just needs an external fuel tank and some machine guns, that's all.  |
10-23-2006, 03:16 AM
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Yes - although the overall "profile" is more like a P47 Thunderbolt.... 
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10-23-2006, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield So - if it's always being amplified with a magnetic pickup,why bother with any modifications to make the acoustic sound louder.... | Because a louder acoustic sound makes for a more beefy electric sound.
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10-23-2006, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Because a louder acoustic sound makes for a more beefy electric sound. | Is a magnetic pickup going to convey this kind of subtlety.... ?
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10-23-2006, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield
Yes - although the overall "profile" is more like a P47 Thunderbolt.... | Bruce,
Sorry to be a know it all, but I believe that is a Curtis P-40 Warhawk (as used during WWII by the famous Flying Tigers). The Thunderbolt (AKA "Jug") had a large radial engine.
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10-23-2006, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by robgrow Bruce,
Sorry to be a know it all, but I believe that is a Curtis P-40 Warhawk (as used during WWII by the famous Flying Tigers). The Thunderbolt (AKA "Jug") had a large radial engine.
(now back to your regularly scheduled program...) | Well I was joking that the "profile" of a Double Bass is rounder and chunkier than the rather "slender" P40 and that if a DB was any plane.. it might be a P47 !! 
But jokes tend to lose something when you have to explain them!!
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10-23-2006, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Houston, TX | | I'd love to see someone show up at a symphony audition with this bass.
Not me, though - I like to win auditions. |
10-23-2006, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Well I was joking that the "profile" of a Double Bass is rounder and chunkier than the rather "slender" P40 and that if a DB was any plane.. it might be a P47 !!
But jokes tend to lose something when you have to explain them!! | Points well taken. |
10-23-2006, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Colorado area ( Arvada | | | That beats the five-string Kay I restored for the rodkavilly guy a few years back, It had naked chicks painand i reinforced the inside so he could ride it ! If anyone is interested i have pics of the interior after the "beefing up".
Bob Monroney
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10-24-2006, 12:37 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Bruce, this IS a psychobilly slap bass, remember. Loudness and brute force are always a subtlety picked up by any pickup.
Bob, I would like to see what you did to that Kay.
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10-24-2006, 04:45 AM
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10-24-2006, 06:01 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | He'll have a piezo on the neck to pick up slaps. That gives it some character and makes it sound less P-bassy. But there is a faction of slappers who like the P-bass sound because it's round and full.
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10-24-2006, 06:14 AM
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10-31-2006, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield This sounds like an "alternate universe" of which I have no knowledge or experience!! | This is the one case where the lack of knowledge might serve one better. So do they make that edging in a different treadpattern? I want white walls on mine .....
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11-01-2006, 07:37 PM
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Endorsing Artist: John Doe Guitars | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Rochester, NY | | | I can't imagine slapping on that thing would sound good if you have that pick stick off of the fingerboard. |
11-02-2006, 05:48 AM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | Well I love it! |
11-02-2006, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker Well I love it! | Ditto! I think it looks excellent. I'm impressed with the creativity in thinking of a cool design, and I admire the ingenuity and skill in fabricating it.
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