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07-22-2006, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | | What are these, bass tumors?
I know this has been discussed here before, to no particular conclusion if I recall, but I must know what the deal is before it drives me mad! This bass is not the first I have seen to sport these odd "balls" or rather more accurately lumps of wood attatched to the edges of the lower bout. Surely someone knows what this is, because there must be a functional explanation... It just looks strange! 
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07-22-2006, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | My bet is that the 'tumors' permit the instrument to be laid on it's back while preventing the more delicate body from making contact with the floor - maybe...
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07-22-2006, 04:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Davis CA | | | lol those look funny. the only thought that came to my mind was that they are for someone who puts thier bass down on its back and the bumps are there to help level the bass out so it doesn't lay flat on its back?
but then again, who lays thier upright on its back?!? lol
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07-22-2006, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | | If they're to keep the seams closed, shouldn't we have them all the way around, top and back? And if you lay your bass on its back, don't most (all) basses rest on the back of the scroll anyway? I guess if you were putting it flat on a table to change strings or something it'd be fine, but I do that regularly with my flatback and it works fine just the way it is, it's not like my dining room table is made of concrete or something... |
07-22-2006, 04:48 PM
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IT'S NOT A TOO-MAH!
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07-22-2006, 04:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | Should've seen that one coming...   |
07-22-2006, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Davis CA | | | hehe--the boobengrabber
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07-22-2006, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: AL/GA | | | Looks to me like it's got some big ticks.... |
07-22-2006, 06:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | | i don´t know what these things are made for, but i know they are typical for many old hungarian basses. |
07-22-2006, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Florida | | | That's a cool looking bass; too bad it got those funky...uh...thingees on it. |
07-22-2006, 08:12 PM
| | Jeff Bollbach Luthier, Inc. | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: freeport, ny | | | Aren't those the Streicher foot thingies? This was discussed a few years back. |
07-22-2006, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Houston, TX | | | This might be a good question for the folks at Tobias Festls being that they are selling the bass. Anyone want to make a betting pool before we call? I say they are some kind of wolf-tone eliminator. |
07-22-2006, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | | Seems to be no particular rhyme or reason to them, either. Oh and Streicher uses a piece of rubber ball glued to the back of the bass, I believe right in the middle. |
07-23-2006, 12:50 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | If Ken Smith doesn't know what they are, I say we're all imagining them. 
Seriously, I vote ticks. Hungarian wood-ticks, bloated w/sap.
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07-23-2006, 02:11 AM
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07-23-2006, 11:41 AM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Nonono, you guys are all wrong. It's the egg sac from an Panormormian Gall Wasp. The wasps laid their eggs in the wood of the basses edges and now these big galls have formed. Give'm a few weeks and they'll hatch and attack the bassplayer for food.  |
07-23-2006, 08:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Francico Bay Area | | | They're actually large warts. Compound "W" sometimes works. If it doesn't, take your bass to a dermatologist and have them burned off. Sometimes they go away on their own. Don't let your bow touch them though as they are highly contagious and the horse hairs will become infected and grow a series of small marble sized warts leaving it useless for anything other than some little known "prepared bass" compositions by a drunken John Cage impersonator....
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07-23-2006, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Florida | | | Warts a SO gross, man. YUCK!!! |
07-23-2006, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake Warts a SO gross, man. YUCK!!! | Would you rather that they be smelly, blistering abscesses?!? |
07-23-2006, 11:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Florida | | | Those are not quite as discusting to me as warts. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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