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10-22-2006, 09:59 PM
| | | | 1936 Rickenbacker EUB
At Gruhn Guitars. Wow! http://www.gruhn.com/
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10-22-2006, 10:37 PM
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10-23-2006, 12:54 AM
| | | | Those gut strings look like they are original. Can't imagine that they worked at all with the magnetic pickup. I imagine with the right set-up that this bass would be worthy, perhaps at a Led Zepplen reunion or something. Anybody know the history on this instrument? |
10-23-2006, 12:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | The strings have metal rapped around them right over the pickup. |
10-23-2006, 08:35 AM
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That's a beauty!
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10-24-2006, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Uppsala, Sweden | | | This, people, is one of the first production model electric basses, as designed by Paul Beauchamp at Rickenbacker. The very first Rick EUBs had an endpin that served as a connector to the amp (the bass rested on top of the amp), while this one seems to have a standard jack.
Lloyd Loar at Gibson made an EUB prototype in 1924 and Seattle luthier Paul Tutmarc made an EUB circa 1933 and a few electric bass guitars, circa 1935-1936.
A later version Rick EUB has a long tubular aluminum body and rests on a stand. Mose Allen and Howard Rumsey briefly played them.
Perhaps not much of a player bass (although I know of people who still play their 30s Rick EUBs live regularly) but this is how it all began, fellas! |
10-27-2006, 11:55 AM
| | | | Well, it seems that the Steinberger EUB might be more more of an updated design based on the concept of the Rick, than an innovation in the history of the EUB.
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11-02-2006, 10:13 PM
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I saw one of those in August, when I was at Rickenbacker for their 75th anniversary celebrations. The instrument was part of a display at the Museum Of Making Music in Carlsbad, California, and should still be there till January, I think.
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11-06-2006, 07:44 PM
| | | | wow! Looks inviting |
11-06-2006, 10:59 PM
| | | | I just checked Gruhn's site, and the Rick is gone, along with a nice looking old 1960 Juzek they had......Mucho thanks to Zachmozach for posting the photos here, a very nice addition to our EUB history resources here. You won't see very many of these basses, that is for sure! |
11-06-2006, 11:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Mexico City | | | WOW! Very interesting!
Strings seem to be very close to each other at the nut and a mile and a half away at the end of the fingerboard. Anyone else sees this or do I need glasses?
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11-07-2006, 01:01 PM
| | | | Well, tome it looks pretty normal, like it was modeled after a european factory bass of the era. Since the bass is slim, it may make the proportions look more extreme than they are. And I'd like to get my hands on it to find out! |
11-09-2006, 06:56 AM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | The Sydney Powerhouse Museum has one hidden away in their collection. I was lucky to have a closeup look the other day. Strings are about 30mm at the bridge and normal spacing at the nut. A massive ebony board. |
11-13-2006, 06:46 PM
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Here is a close up of the unique pickup on the Rickenbacker upright.
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11-13-2006, 08:43 PM
| | | | Huh....pretty cool, but aren't the pickups in the photos we've been looking at dual/split coil? (Kind of like a mondo P-Bas pickup.) This one here looks like a giant single coil, like maybe a an old Framus. |
11-14-2006, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Way out there! | | | Yeah, I didn't even think about that. This PU is from the second version of the Rickenbacker EUB, the one based on an aluminum pipe with everything attached to it. |
11-15-2006, 12:28 PM
| | | | Still looks like Framus hardware to me. Do you have any info or pics of the bass this pu came from? |
11-15-2006, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Way out there! | | | No, it is definitely from a Rickenbacker. I got this pic from someone on the Rickresource Forum, so I do not have any more info. There is a pic of the 2nd version of the bass in the Richard Smith Rickenbacker book, and I think also in the book "Fender The Sound Heard Round The World". |
11-15-2006, 06:49 PM
| | | Very good, thank-you!  |
12-13-2006, 10:42 PM
| | | | Ok, I can't help myself.....there is a great profile/article of the Ric Bass on page 44 of the Feb 2007 Vintage Guitar Magazine that just came in the mail.
The closing comment is:
"Had there been a dedicated bass amplifier in 1936 for this instrument, today's elctric bass players might still be playing upright basses rather than bass guitars." George Gruhn and Walter Carter
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