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12-22-2009, 10:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Orleans | | | Pics of Antique Bass Trunk I Just Bought
I just got this bass trunk. It must be around 100 years old. http://www.doublebasschat.com/forum/...ead.php?t=8624
Has anyone ever seen one like this, or know anything about it?
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12-23-2009, 04:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Yeah, I used to have a huge case like that, as well. It must have weighed 70 lbs without the bass! I found it in the basement of a university I went to and they "allowed me to take it off their hands." I "donated" it to the National Youth Orchestra of Canada when I no longer had a use for it.
They might have been a good thing to have back in day of train travel and there were slaves to move it for you. But I think you'll have a hard time getting the baggage handlers at an airport to include it in air cargo. And the extra weight will really cost you dearly.
Once you moved your bass and you realize it's a big pain in the @#$, you can use it as a wardrobe, or a liqueur cabinet, or a rifle locker, or a coffin prop in a play, or a ..... . Until you "donate" it to a worthy cause. |
12-23-2009, 05:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Taylor Trunk.....
I used to have one like that just for grins. I painted it a dark shade of brown and the metal framing flat back, then put a coat of shellac on. It had "The Denver Symphony" stenciled on the front, so I re-stenciled it in gold hobby paint.
We had big antique furniture in the dining room and the Taylor looked great in there. When we moved to a smaller house, I sold it to a neighbor lady who also used it for a decoration.
If I had it now, in my older, more fun years I would hand-cuff my lady friend in there when she was a Bad Girl  .
They were made in the early 1900's for major symmphony orchestras for train travel here and on ships for trips abroad. They might have been made by the old "Steamer Trunk Company" who made travel trunks for trips abroad. I still have one of those in storage. I fixed that up to use as a coffee table in my music room.
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12-23-2009, 05:54 AM
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Maybe our Beloved Moderators could move this into a more appropriate Forum, rather than the Basses Forum.
More people might enjoy it.
BTW: That site where you linked us into for the pics is a very strange world. I wouldn't log in there on a bet.
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12-23-2009, 08:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton 
BTW: That site where you linked us into for the pics is a very strange world. I wouldn't log in there on a bet.
| They sure say **** a lot in there. |
12-23-2009, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton .
BTW: That site where you linked us into for the pics is a very strange world. I wouldn't log in there on a bet. | As an alternative (& nothing to do w/ basses), you might consider visiting this site: http://www.sports-faq.com/ .. a good bit easier to read, and you'll learn a lot about such sports as Snooker Pool, Outdoor Recreation, and Cricket. |
12-23-2009, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Orleans | | | Thanks for the information. There are a few reasons that got it-none of them practical. It was made around the same time my French Quarter apartment was built, and it fits into the "vibe". The luggage stickers on it chronicle the last hundred years of modern transportation, and are neat to look at. (It would be real lame to "fix" it up.) I can also keep my second bass in it, and it won't take up much more space.
Oh yeah, and if I got some flames online for my musical interest it would be really cool!
Yes... |
12-23-2009, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: emmitsburg, maryland | | | nice...
they were a coal dust magnet, so blow it out good. |
12-23-2009, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Basswhore Oh yeah, and if I got some flames online for my musical interest it would be really cool! | OK.
Betcher' left hand looks like yer chokin' an Anaconda when you play. 
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12-24-2009, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New Orleans | | | Good one Paul.
I use the Anaconda when I'm not doing Simandl or Rabbath.
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12-24-2009, 06:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | I work @ the Metropolitan Opera House. (Not as a bassist, though) There are about two dozen of those trunks lined up like soldiers in the first sub-basement hallway. The orchestra still uses them for tours. |
12-24-2009, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Lo-E I work @ the Metropolitan Opera House. (Not as a bassist, though) There are about two dozen of those trunks lined up like soldiers in the first sub-basement hallway. The orchestra still uses them for tours. |
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