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03-14-2009, 11:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | My new Shen SB-190
I'm lucky to live near Shen's main headquarters, and after renting an SB-150 from them for awhile, I took the plunge and bought their new model. Flat laminated maple back, solid willow sides, solid spruce top. It's bigger and louder than the SB-150, and sounds great. I have a set of Obligatos on it. I must say it sounds very close to a fully carved bass. Nice comfortable neck, too. 
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03-14-2009, 12:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Southern California | | | Very nice, congrats! |
03-14-2009, 01:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Dumas, Texas! | | | Yo! I just picked up the same bass a week ago! I heard mine at the NAMM show, and I just took delivery a week ago. Nice bass, huh? I traded my Shen Willow for it, and it was the right move in every way for me! I have #1...you must have #2! Congrats on your new bass. Mine sounds in every way like a fully carved bass, and I am thrilled with it! Can you post a few more pics??
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03-14-2009, 01:40 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | | Really pretty! Can you, perhaps, link to more/bigger pictures via Photobucket or the like?
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03-14-2009, 01:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | I'll give photobucket a try and post more detailed pics soon (I'm kind of a klutz with digital imaging). |
03-14-2009, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | hey jacochops, I checked out the one you ended up buying! I wanted to buy it right then, but they were already planning on taking it to NAMM. You got a beauty! I thought it played and sounded fantastic. |
03-15-2009, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | more pics
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03-15-2009, 10:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Southern California | | | Sorry, but photos aren't visible at 9:20 a.m. PDT 3.15.08. |
03-15-2009, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | sorry, they're up now. I had wrong links at first. |
03-15-2009, 10:26 AM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Looks really sweet! Hey, clean off that scroll! 
Enjoy your new musical mate! |
03-15-2009, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | Thanks! Yeah, I noticed all that dust after I shot. Oops! |
03-15-2009, 10:36 AM
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Retailer: Shen, Sun, older European | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Burlingame, California | | | Rogeri shape
I'm pretty impressed with the first one from the NAMM show as well. I first learned about this hybrid model last summer in a conversation wtih John Sprague of CSC. I was putting in a request for an all-solid willow flatback version of the Rogeri pattern, which would be an nice intermediate size between the 3/4 and large 7/8 Gemunder shapes. I'd sure like to see some all-solid flatbacks come out this year. I think that it would be the cat's meow. |
03-15-2009, 10:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Southern California | | Now we're talkin'
She's a beaut. Enjoy! |
03-15-2009, 10:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | one more resized shot
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03-15-2009, 10:44 AM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tin-Foot Paul  Thanks! Yeah, I noticed all that dust after I shot. Oops! | Ok, so let's get a "scroll shot" with her all cleaned up. Is it ok to say "scroll shot?" |
03-15-2009, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rochester, New York | | | will do, drurb! |
03-15-2009, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville | | | Wow, that's a nice looking bass! I've never liked sloping shoulders, and this bass has just the opposite. It has a very classic look. The violin corners are gorgeous too!
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03-15-2009, 05:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Maynard MA | | NICE! |
03-15-2009, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | | Congratulations! It looks lovely!
How is it, under the bow? |
03-15-2009, 07:52 PM
|  | WJWJr Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Connecticut | | | Awesome, congrats!
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