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12-26-2009, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Belgium | |  so you win the lottery....(shameless copy paste from the BG forum)
Question, if you won the lottery...what bass would you be playing right now?
I accidently ended up posting in a BG forum... shame on me... but this would be my choice:
this baby.... most gorgeous bass in the world (imo): 
Nic, if you would read this: wanna trade Bessie for my Choufke?
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12-26-2009, 12:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | same one I'm playing now. |
12-26-2009, 12:42 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | | That's my answer as well, but I was waiting for someone else to say it first!
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12-26-2009, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by drurb  That's my answer as well, but I was waiting for someone else to say it first! | well.... we'll have to see how she will sound after i've had her through full recovery operations... perhaps i'll say the same you guys are saying 
now it's just wait and see... |
12-26-2009, 02:09 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson same one I'm playing now. | +1. I'd either keep playing "Tereza" or check out other basses by Schnitzer and DeSola. |
12-26-2009, 03:50 PM
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Proprietor, Holmes Bass Viol Shop | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Milan, TN | | | I would check out Ken Smith and Arnold Schnitzer's basses-the pictures of them on their webs are breathtaking-Can only imagine the sound and playability. |
12-26-2009, 04:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Detroit | | | I'd have a New Standard Cleveland strung with guts through an AI Focus into an EA VL208. But I'd probably quit coming to TB if that were my rig.
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12-26-2009, 09:19 PM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | To quote my friend, a fine luthier on his own, the late Ted Davis:
"What would I do if I won the lottery? I'd keep working as a luthier until the money ran out....."
j.
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12-27-2009, 05:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Georgia | | | I would keep the one I have now. Having money means I can buy a back up.
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Hofner Double Bass; Spirocore Weichs; K&K Bass Max; MXR M-80; Ampeg BA115
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12-27-2009, 06:41 AM
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I'm still quite heavily in love with my Bohmann fiver after about 33 years. I still stare, in awe, at it leaning in a corner every day. That's where I live....it's my home, A huge part of my past and my link into the future. I am shopping for another bass to play without my amp on some occasions. I love the Montagnana pattern for looks. I'm thinking Panormo pattern for playing issues and, like many of us, I've lusted over a big Prescott.
Lottery win? Straight to Arnold with specific measurements, wood choices, color and trimmings.
EDIT: Arnold, if yer looking in here, I think Bill McCrossen is coming in soon. We played some duets together last time he was in Denver with your old # 1. I'll bring my bass this time to Bob Ross' shop if we do that. I played one of Bob's "For Sale" basses outta the rack (not one he made). Bill and your bass blew me out of the room, damn it. Made me look a fool.
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"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself." Phil Urso, 1980. :atoz:
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12-27-2009, 07:34 AM
| | AES Fine Instruments | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brewster, NY, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton
EDIT: Arnold, if yer looking in here, I think Bill McCrossen is coming in soon. We played some duets together last time he was in Denver with your old # 1. I'll bring my bass this time to Bob Ross' shop if we do that. I played one of Bob's "For Sale" basses outta the rack (not one he made). Bill and your bass blew me out of the room, damn it. Made me look a fool.
| Bill is a fabulous player, and pulls a huge sound despite having fairly low strings. I got really lucky with bass #1, as I did just about everything wrong in the building process. The arching of the top and back are incredibly high, and when I first bowed the bass I was disappointed. But jazz strings really brought it to life. I'm just finishing up bass #22 (my new Testore-influenced 7/8), and I have a few more things figured out now, although it's hard to look at one's work and not focus on the flaws. (That can be said for musicians as well, yes?) |
12-27-2009, 08:06 AM
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What's a "flaw"? 
EDIT: Hey, Lou and I spent a helluva long time on the phone the other night. Big time giggles.
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12-27-2009, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton What's a "flaw"? | Something not found in jazz music.
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12-27-2009, 10:00 AM
| | AES Fine Instruments | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brewster, NY, USA | | | Or one's spouse... |
12-27-2009, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer Or one's spouse... |  |
12-27-2009, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | Hear, hear on finding flaws in our spouses. Who are we to criticize G*d's handiwork?
For anyone who hasn't seen this, just a reminder of what can happen when we forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twivg7GkYts
Last edited by Eric Swanson : 12-27-2009 at 11:39 AM.
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12-27-2009, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC | | | I'm with PW on this one; a fiver from Arnold. |
12-27-2009, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer Or one's spouse... | Smart man...you will be married until death do you part. |
12-27-2009, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Arnold got out!
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Originally Posted by Eric Swanson Hear, hear on finding flaws in our spouses. Who are we to criticize G*d's handiwork?
For anyone who hasn't seen this, just a reminder of what can happen when we forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twivg7GkYts | Dig the ending. Arnold DID get out. That's why he posted that ****. 
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12-27-2009, 02:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Roseburg, Oregon, US | | | GO ARNOLD!!!
To answer the OP question; If I won the lottery I would probably write progressively larger checks to Don Higdon until he gave me his AES bass because f*** is that thing gorgeous. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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