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03-10-2013, 07:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pickering, Ontario | | | Xuechang Sun owners!
I was just wondering if there are many talk bass members that own/play any of the Sun basses and how they are viewed in comparison to other Asian basses.
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03-10-2013, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: West Chester, PA | | | I play 1 last week in San Francisco and I liked it
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03-10-2013, 09:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: silicon valley | | | I have had mine since early September and I love it. I tried several from Steve Swan's shop and finally decided on the mid level Sun. It shines in both pizzicato and arco. It is a very expressive instrument. |
03-11-2013, 06:34 PM
| | Thomas Andres- Bass Makers | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Northern Virginia | | | I own one personally, use it as a concert rental and loaner. I think they're great instruments! |
03-11-2013, 09:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: West Chester, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kwd  I have had mine since early September and I love it. I tried several from Steve Swan's shop and finally decided on the mid level Sun. It shines in both pizzicato and arco. It is a very expressive instrument. | HA! That is where I played it!
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03-12-2013, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Montreal, QC, Canada | | | I have a "Sun Sinfonica" that came from Mario Lamarre's shop. He imports them, all built, and then does his setup on them, fingerboard, bridge, sound post, tail-piece etc.
It is a pretty large bodied bass (about 44" long, 9 1/4" rib), but with a 41" fingerboard. Sounds wonderful. Looks great. Easy to play. From talks with Mario, he thinks highly of these instruments, they way they are designed, the way they are built, the woods that are used. I remember him saying that for him just to buy that quality wood for his own instruments, would be a big expense by itself. |
03-12-2013, 07:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | My stand partner in one of the community orchestras that he bought from Steve Swan.The bass is very attractive, seems well made, and sounds great. I don't know the model
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03-12-2013, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pickering, Ontario | | | Trying to find out which model of a Sun bass seems to be tricky as the ones that Steve Swan advertise have different numbers/model names altogether from the ones I have seen which are called 401, 402, 403, and a few other numbers while I have seen sights that talk about the Sinfonica mentioned above. I believe that they only make them with violin corners and that the biggest difference is the grade of wood and graduation of the table, etc.. My own bass doesn't have a label inside but the distributor in Toronto tells me it is a 402 model, not the top one and not the bottom of the line either. It is approximately 10 years old, I'm told by the two previous owners.
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03-13-2013, 10:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Montreal, QC, Canada | | Here's a site with pictures. http://www.sinomanmusic.com/products/xcs-bass.html
I spoke to these people on the phone a few years back. They told me that they bring in the basses from the Bejiing area and keep them in Toronto for about a year and then sell them off to local stores and individuals.
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