Well last week I just got my first bass and needless to say, I'm a very happy man. A friend of mine who plays classical told me about a violin shop that has good basses. He told me that the luther he got it from deals with chinese instrument makers so at first I was pretty skeptical of the actual quality the luthers instruments could be, since chinese basses have the reputation of not being the finest instruments in the world. But I decided to go and check it out.
It turns out the luther only buys the high quality instruments from China and this bass in his shop happened to be one of those hand carved high quality basses. The bass in the store looked great and had an awesome tone, leaving me no regrets when purchasing my very first bass. After playing it more and more, I've come to the conclusion that my bass is a bass made in china rather than a "chinese bass". All in all, I'm a very happy man
