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04-16-2002, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Prison; scheduled to be paroled next fall because of some mishaps | |  How old is your Upright?
Hi guys, I am from over in the BG forum. An interesting post was raised over there: How old was your bass. Well, I would like to see just how ancient (or new) some of these sweet ol' uprights are. 
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04-16-2002, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New Albany, MS | | | c.1930 Juzek 5-string; made in Prague
Monte
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04-16-2002, 02:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: New Joisey Shore | | | 1941 Kay, my Juzek is the subject of two opinions, either pre- or post-WWII |
04-16-2002, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada | | For years I played on an Italian bass that was about 300 years old. The problem was, that particular bass was in such poor condition it was constantly giving me problems with repairs. To be honest, the sound of that bass was very muddy.
I've since switched to a modern instrument - a superbly crafted 1994 Peter Elias bass, which stands up to just about any other fine old bass I've played next to. It doesn't need to be old to be a great bass - it just needs to be very well made.  |
04-16-2002, 08:39 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Monte
c.1930 Juzek 5-string; made in Prague |
I (being a bass player with basically no knowlege of DB) didn't know they made > 4 string Double Basses!!!! Is it tuned the standard BEADGB??? If it is, that B must sound THUNDEROUS....I'm gonna start reading more DB posts.... 
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04-17-2002, 02:48 AM
| | | | 2000 Sirleto, previously owned a '29 Juzek and before that a Czech plywood from the late 40's or 50's. |
04-17-2002, 04:02 AM
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Just started payments on a '52 Kay C-1 today!!!!! |
04-17-2002, 08:20 AM
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04-17-2002, 08:31 AM
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1970's Englehardt |
04-17-2002, 09:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | late 90's Strunal |
04-17-2002, 10:10 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada | | 1840's German 3/4. Made in Berlin. |
04-17-2002, 12:12 PM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | Re: cool
Quote: Originally posted by Chris Brodowski
I (being a bass player with basically no knowlege of DB) didn't know they made > 4 string Double Basses!!!! Is it tuned the standard BEADGB??? If it is, that B must sound THUNDEROUS....I'm gonna start reading more DB posts.... | I have a Steinberger Electric Upright bass which is a 5 stringer with low B - the low D below normal bottom E is "thunderous" - well maybe more like an earthquake  - and is felt through the floor by everyone in the room!
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04-17-2002, 12:36 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | 1990's Anonymous German; 1920's (I think) American Standard Plywood. |
04-17-2002, 07:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Seattle University or Cd'A, ID | | | The store said it was from around 1950, the lutheir said it could have been the 70's, the research I did would say that it was from around 1920. An old german 5/8 lewis (plywood), made for the company when it was still in chicago. Very little info to be found on this company. lets just say its not new.
Its also a four string, tuned E A D G. Remember chris B, when Leo Fender designed the first fretted electric bass, he called it the Precision bass, and made it for upright bassists who needed a portabilty option. ( thats the story I heard anyhow)
The low B's on 5 string double basses, however, are thunderous, if its a well made bass. |
04-17-2002, 08:01 PM
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Engelhardt 19?? (anyone know how to research Kay/Engelhardt serial numbers?). |
04-18-2002, 11:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | Quote: Originally posted by Ed Fuqua
1920's Mittenwald.
I can't wait for Donosaur to check in.... | I just got in from France last night. On another thread, I'll tell about the splendid day I spent with Olivier seeing luthiers in Paris.
As for the question, I had a Tyrolean c. 1860-70; a Kaakstein from 1890. I just sold my Mittenwald jazz bass, c. 1900. Juzek from Germany, late 40's ?; Kay S-1, 1950's.
Currently: American Standard, 1925; DeLeone, 1935; anonymous (I found out it IS NOT French) to die for, probably Eastern European, 1950?-1970?
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04-18-2002, 02:30 PM
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Take a look at http://www.kaybass.com there in info about s/n's there
my Cristopher is a 2001 I had a Kay that was ? old poor old thing was rode hard and put away wet!
Joe
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04-19-2002, 10:41 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Chris Brodowski
I (being a bass player with basically no knowlege of DB) didn't know they made > 4 string Double Basses!!!! Is it tuned the standard BEADGB??? If it is, that B must sound THUNDEROUS....I'm gonna start reading more DB posts.... | I just got the Spring 2002 edition of Double Bassist magazine which has a feature on a 1767 bass by Johnann Joseph Stadmann,once in the possession of Viennese virtuoso Franz Simandl - with extensive pictures and details!
So, this is a 5 string bass and the article says : "Viennese basses of the Classical period were commonly built as five-stringers."
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04-19-2002, 04:53 PM
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04-20-2002, 07:35 PM
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