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04-09-2008, 07:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Maryland | | | My new Kay
Last Saturday, I just got my first upright. Thanks to all the people that I have met here and elsewhere for their time, helping me make an 'educated' buy.
It is a 1959 Kay S-1 
It is strung with Thomastik-Infeld Spirocore, set up with low action as I like. Here it is: 
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04-09-2008, 07:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: BASS Heaven !!!! | | Very nice !!! Enjoy!!! |
04-09-2008, 07:28 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Hey! That's not new, it's used. Seems the seller misled you. 
Seriously, congrats! Looks great. It's a treat when you find a "bass love." |
04-09-2008, 07:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by drurb  Hey! That's not new, it's used. Seems the seller misled you.
Seriously, congrats! Looks great. It's a treat when you find a "bass love." | I should have said "new" to me 
But since she is older than me..... does that make me new to her ? 
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04-09-2008, 08:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Denver Colorado | | | Hey, new or old, it looks like a great bass. Have fun, enjoy!!! |
04-09-2008, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: No. Virginia near Wash, DC | |  SWEET
Hope she sounds as sweet as she looks ! - Nice, very nice - those old S-1s are hard to come by - especially as nice as that one - Enjoy !
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04-09-2008, 10:00 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Nice find Hotrod, it looks very original - I like that colour, too.
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04-09-2008, 03:05 PM
|  | GOLD Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: New Joisey Shore | | | Very cool, ENJOY! |
04-09-2008, 05:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | Hot -
Lucky you.
I had a 1950 S-1. A dynamite little bass (40.5 string length) that played loud and rich. I hope you enjoy yours.
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04-09-2008, 06:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bozeman Montana | | Congrats HotRoded ... It's a beaut . I have a '64 S-1 with SS G & D and Spiro Weich A & E and it sure sounds good. The S-1 was the high-end Kay at the time with ebony FB and TP and real purfling. Enjoy your new old bass.
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04-09-2008, 09:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK | | | Nice! I sorely miss my Kay. A 54' she was, scarred and rugged, but beatiful sounding................sniff............snifff... ........... |
04-10-2008, 06:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Maryland | | | Thanks very much you guys for all the compliments !
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04-10-2008, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Premier, WV | | | That right there is real purty!
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04-10-2008, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | I'm familiar with the M-1 (my friend had one) and the C-1 (I had one for my first instrument), but not the S-1. How are they different? Either way, looks like a lovely bass! |
04-10-2008, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bozeman Montana | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mjt0229 I'm familiar with the M-1 (my friend had one) and the C-1 (I had one for my first instrument), but not the S-1. How are they different? ... | Lots of info on Kay Models here: http://www.kaybass.com/#SHORTCUT |
04-11-2008, 04:29 AM
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04-11-2008, 05:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mjt0229 I'm familiar with the M-1 (my friend had one) and the C-1 (I had one for my first instrument), but not the S-1. How are they different? Either way, looks like a lovely bass! | I am not very knowledgeable, but the S-1 came with ebony fingerboard and tail piece, and real purfling on top, back and around the "f" holes (which is not necessarily an advantage on a plywood bass). That's all I know!
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04-11-2008, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | Nice!
Wow thats a nice looking Kay. Congrats! I love the color.
I also recently purchased my first DB. Its a 51' Kay M1 and I bought it from a fellow TB'r here in Phoenix just a month ago. I love it. Been playing EB for 20+ years and never new what I was missing.
Enjoy! 
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04-11-2008, 12:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gambaholic ... and never new what I was missing.
| ... Same here ! I'm adicted already.....
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