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02-13-2004, 11:17 AM
| | Inadvertent Microtonalist | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DonZ Speaking of Human head scrolls there is a gamba in the Smithsonian with a human head scroll. | There's a woman's head on the bass in my pic, carved by one fo the makers, Alene Westover.
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02-13-2004, 04:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Sam...i'm confused about your statement?
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02-14-2004, 06:58 AM
| | | | how does that work ? is the head a another piece of the scroll ?
speaking of Chambers...I ran across a guy last year in CT that has a Kay ex Chambers... |
02-14-2004, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DonZ how does that work ? is the head a another piece of the scroll ? | I've seen a few where the head was grafted onto the scroll, but the proper way to do it is to make it part of the same piece of wood that the neck and scroll are made from. That's what makes the carving like on Jeff's lions head so special. You only get one chance to get it right. (And Jeff Got It Right - Beautiful Work!)
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03-09-2004, 07:27 PM
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I've seen some pics of twin Tyrol Basses from the mid-late 1700s with beautiful Lion heads. Richard Davis has a nice one as well. I owned a beautiful 3/4 labeled 'Hans Schirmer' with a Lions head back in the 1970s and the maker was from about 1920 Germany. BTW, I was told years ago the Paul Chambers 'Lady' Was put on and not original. In 1970 when I played in NY in the West End Symphony, a cummunity Orchester acting also as a shedding ground for local Pros, A man named Irv Manning owned a beautiful gamba shaped Bass with a Ladies head on it. Paul Biase, Cachao(Israel Lopez), Hubert Laws and Mauriceo Smith (he always called me his 'white son'), also played in the Orchestra.
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03-11-2004, 05:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Pasadena Area | | | Elaborate Woodwork
The Gliga distributor in close by and I went to see that
bass pictured above on Ebay. I also talked to the son
of the old man, who runs the US operation. He said
they had 1000 people in the factory working on their
instruments. So maybe NOT CNC? As for the it being
over the top, yeah it sure it. A bit too much for me.
They have a plainer looking version for $4.5K that was
nice but not well set up. What Gliga does have access
to is some of the most outrageous wood I have ever
seen. Mostly used in smaller instruments, not in the
big basses. Bird's eye to die for, flame that is beyond
words. Now to get a bass made like that without so
much carving, that would be it, then add 40 years
of age.
I do like the more restrained look of the older Pollman
basses. The newer ones I viewed at Lemur were nice,
especially the metal working on the machines, but the
old ones are less flash but more dash in my book. Let
me check my wallet, oops, no Pollman today. |
03-12-2004, 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Maaaven they had 1000 people in the factory working on their
instruments. | Boy, I dunno if i would believe that.........
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