Info about Capri upright bass?

[SlaM900]

This isn't easy so far to find online. Can anyone provide me with background information for this type of bass?

[Dave Irwin]

I've never heard of it but where did you find the bass. Maybe a little context will help. It might just be a new name applied to a shop bass.

[chris1125]

Pictures say 1000 words

[Manessa57]

I carry the Capri Double Basses on my website and also other brands including accessories.

[drurb]

Originally Posted by SlaM900

This isn't easy so far to find online. Can anyone provide me with background information for this type of bass?

I suggest that you go here:

BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO BUYING AND STARTING OUT ON DOUBLE BASS (WIKI w/many links)

One of the top recommendations you'll find offered here is that you buy a bass from a bona fide bass shop. Avoid guitar shops and musical mass retailers.

[Diogenes]

Originally Posted by Manessa57

I carry the Capri Double Basses on my website and also other brands including accessories.

No photos and two sentences 'describing' the Capri which has a price tag of $1,399.00. C'mon... really? I've gotten more specs and info on 99 cent tube socks sold over the i'net.

[Manessa57]

I have had some difficulty getting the information and pictures necessary to post online. Secondly, I am NOT a mass retailer. I am a small business who takes great pride in what I offer, but I can't control what the dealers provide me.

I have another line of basses coming out which I will add tomorrow, 4/4/2012. They have much better specs and great pics. I am also working with some overseas suppliers to get some of the higher quality basses.

As for the price, I will double check the prices on the basses currently listed. Bear in mind, that I also absorb the shipping costs, offer a 100% guarantee, but like I said, I will do some comparison shopping.

Thanks all for your input!!

If you get a moment, please complete the survey on my website. Home

Thanks all!!
Manessa

[Sam Sherry]

Originally Posted by Manessa57

I have had some difficulty getting the information and pictures necessary to post online. Secondly . . . I can't control what the dealers provide me.

I have another line of basses coming out which I will add . . . . They have much better specs and great pics. I am also working with some overseas suppliers to get some of the higher quality basses.

Let's try again:

Have you ever personally touched a Capri bass?

Do you land these instruments and adjust them or do you just drop-ship them?

Do you play the double-bass?

What folks say here over and over is that you're not buying a pic, you're not buying a price and you're not buying a spec. Double basses require detailed evaluation, adjustment and attention. Either a) the seller does that work (and includes it in the price), b) the buyer pays a luthier for it or c) the bass doesn't play right.

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Nevertheless, all the best with your new business.

[drurb]

Originally Posted by Manessa57

... I am NOT a mass retailer. I am a small business who takes great pride in what I offer, but I can't control what the dealers provide me.

Take a look at the advice I offered:

Originally Posted by drurb

...One of the top recommendations you'll find offered here is that you buy a bass from a bona fide bass shop. Avoid guitar shops and musical mass retailers.

Okay, you're not a "mass retailer." It seems, however, that you are also not a bona fide bass shop. You also don't seem to specialize in the double bass in any way. That's really the most important bit of advice and why I mentioned it first.

With regard to pictures and specs, your statement that you can't control what dealers provide to you is very telling. You could, of course, take detailed pictures of one of every model you sell set up in your shop the way a customer can expect to receive it. Here's where the answers to Sam Sherry's questions become crucial.

I read your story on your website. You seem like a well-meaning guy with a love of instruments. Please understand that, based on a vast amount of collective experience and wisdom on these pages, buyers inquiring here will always be steered clear of inexpensive imported instruments of unknown repute that are not provided with an expert setup.

The Capri double bass you are offering for $1300 is described as a hybrid in that it has a solid top. For the sake of newbies who might be reading this, a "solid top" is not necessarily a carved top. You're just not going to get a properly carved, decent spruce top for $1300. Often, what you do get, (as in the Robelli basses), is a cardboard-thin piece of spruce that has been molded into shape.

Buy the way, the Cecilio "Black Bass" package you're offering for $1000 can be had right here for 40% less (free shipping provided, as you do), although I would never, ever recommend that anyone buy one of those.