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08-27-2008, 07:08 AM
| | | | What do you make of this? (pix)
My 1st post. Yea!
Well, what do you make of this? Seems like a cut italian...
Amazing bass though.
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08-27-2008, 07:13 AM
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more pix.. not plywood?  |
08-27-2008, 08:27 AM
|  | Velvet Strings Customer Service | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SWITZERLAND | | its old and ugly, but dont worry, im willing to go to your house and take it from your hands  , i will even pay you dinner.
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08-27-2008, 08:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NorCal | | | I think it's what they call a "Double Bass", but I'm no expert. |
08-27-2008, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | Its not that old though, cuz its got five strings, unless that was a recent conversion. |
08-28-2008, 03:46 AM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Looks to me like something off the www.worldofbasses.de website to me.  |
08-29-2008, 11:38 AM
| | | | Yeah, it is from the abovementioned shop.And it is old and ugly.5th string is a recent conversion.
I was just wondering if somebody has seen this bass before.
Plywood or Ruggieri.
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08-29-2008, 11:45 AM
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08-29-2008, 02:38 PM
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08-29-2008, 02:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: East Nashville | | | That may be a recent 5 string conversion, but they've been making 5's for a loooooong time..... |
08-30-2008, 01:05 PM
| | | | bassist14:
thank you so much!
the conversion; well i think it is fairly one of the best basses i have ever played. yes, there has been a real operation to make this bass a survivor and it surely is.
As it comes to rendering 3 stringed instruments to 5.. well:
Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow[1] (January 8, 1830 – February 12, 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard Wagner.
Some of his orchestral innovations included the addition of the five-string bass and the pedal timpani; the pedal timpani have since become standard instruments in the symphony orchestra.
No worries. The bass works.
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08-30-2008, 04:22 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Barrie, Ontario | | Very nice, except for that extra string... you might want to get that removed  |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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