I’ve been playing electric bass for about 9 years now. For roughly the last 3 years I’ve wanted to learn the upright bass. About 3 weeks ago I decided that I was going to take the plunge and get an upright.
I picked up a 25 year old Romanian Knilling 1308T for what I consider fairly cheap. I’ve checked around and I couldn’t find a comparable bass for anywhere near this price.
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I did take some risk buying on eBay without playing the instrument first, but I am comfortable with the level of risk involved. While the seller has little feedback history he answered emails quickly and said the bass was ready to play as is. A few local double bassists I know said I should go for it.
I do know a couple of upright players here in town and have found a teacher. The fact that the violinist in my band (who I’m dating) plays with a few local symphonies really helps. She’s on the Houston Symphony Orchestra sub-list and gigs with them regularly.
The plan (ahh… plans) is to take lessons and actually learn the instrument & theory. This is something that I’ve not been too successful at on the electric bass. However, I’ve been working on my reading for the last few weeks and it is coming along fairly well.
Here is an eBay picture. I’ll post up a few more after I pick the bass up tomorrow.
Moral support is appreciated.
