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Originally Posted by Rob Sleeper  Wow, Edgar Meyer has a nice 5 string bass! To me 5 stringers just make so much more sense in 4 stringers with extensions. Does anyone know what kind he has?
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A couple of previous TB posts from the archives:
arnoldschnitzer
01-25-2004, 09:56 AM
I was over at Horst Grunert's shop in Penzberg in March of '02. That bass Edgar was playing was a dead ringer for a couple fivers I saw there. To me it had the look of a tastefully antiqued new bass, in a Bohemian or Bavarian style. For some serious "drool", take a look at Horst's website at
www.gruenert.com Anyone who finds himself in southern Germany should stop by Grunert's shop for the head-spin factor. Two men. A HUGE stash of wood. An enormous, well-equipped shop. Trees come in one end--cellos and basses go out the other. Prolific and talented makers...BTW, I agree with Ken that it looked like Edgar was playing in standard tuning, though I could not tell what his lowest string was tuned to. Excellent concert!
davegr8house
01-25-2004, 05:36 PM
Hey Guys,
This I took from Bass Player Mag. Nov. 2002 where Edgar was interviewed. Kinda long but this was written in the "gear" section of the interview. I`ll revise it so to keep it shorter...
Edgar Meyer`s main solo bass is a 1769 Gabrielli made in Florence, Italy, and modified in recent years by Dan Hachez at Robertson & Sons in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hachez added a new fingerboard (complete with boxwood position dots) as well as an extension that gives Edgar four notes below low E on the bottom String. Meyer normally uses a modified solo tuning-EBEA- on the 40 7/8-String length Gabrielli, but he brings in the low C on both concertos. Nashville bassist/Luthier Jim Ferguson did Edgar`s set-up. He uses Thomastik Spirocores on the bottom strings and Flexcores on the top. Edgar`s other Basses are an 18th-century Bohemian 5-string (41 1/2 string length), which he praises for its "incredible" low B, and a 1933 Robert Jager (41 7/8). Meyer keeps the 5-string in New York, where he plays it with the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center; the Jager resides in Nashville. "Its the Bass I grew up with, and I like it a lot. I played it on tour with Wynton Marsalis, and I would use it if I were playing with Drums or really bassy guitars."
All Well thought you guys might be interested..
Dave
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