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08-29-2008, 04:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | | Does anybody know the origin of this "bass"?
The perfect bass for playing bum notes on the G string: 
Does anyone know where this came from? Are there any more photos of it out there? Were there other instruments like it?
If it's been discussed before, please point me to the correct thread.
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08-29-2008, 04:18 AM
|  | Velvet Strings Customer Service | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SWITZERLAND | | I wonder if that bass sounds better with metal or gut strings... i would say gut 
Nuno |
08-29-2008, 04:37 AM
| | | I've heard recordings of that bass before.
It sounds like ass. |
08-29-2008, 05:20 AM
| | Looking for a left handed rig. | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Akron, Ohio | | | I don't know, but I'd like to know the origin of the picture.
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08-29-2008, 06:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | Quote:
Originally Posted by chuckjones93  I don't know, but I'd like to know the origin of the picture. | Found it in the sex forum of a weightlifting website. The guy who posted it there doesn't know anything about it, just reposted it from elsewhere.
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08-29-2008, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pklima
Does anyone know where this came from? | I'm guessin' Vegas. |
08-29-2008, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Chicago | | ..where's Ken when you need him? 
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08-29-2008, 11:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | He's not here anymore.... anyone else wanna have a crack at "dating" this bass? |
08-29-2008, 11:51 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Wow, every player's fantasy!! That's why they call it a 'double bass'.
Reminds me of a Fellini movie... Satyricon? |
08-29-2008, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson He's not here anymore.... anyone else wanna have a crack at "dating" this bass? | He He...he said crack. |
08-30-2008, 12:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Atlanta | | Finally - A bass with lots of bottom. - The kind that's felt more than heard.
Dave  |
08-30-2008, 04:54 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Barrie, Ontario | | | I guess you can't repair the cracks on that bass... |
09-05-2008, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson He's not here anymore.... | Wow, what did I miss this time? (Feel free to email the details)
Oh yeah, and Hmm, no quiver. Where does he stash the bow when he plays pizz?
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09-26-2008, 02:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Once Again with Feeling!
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09-26-2008, 07:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | What, no "tail-piece" jokes?
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01-10-2009, 06:17 AM
| | | | Wait a sec, where are those strings anchored, exactly? O_O |
06-12-2009, 10:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Whyalla, South Australia | | | Where is the guy's left hand?
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06-13-2009, 05:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | POW!
I hope the chick at the top dint have burritos fer lunch.
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Oh, no.....have we gone OT yet again?
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06-14-2009, 08:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Montreal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wal Pawlik Where is the guy's left hand? | On the J String. |
06-15-2009, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: somewhere else | | | Those basses are supposed be a real joy to play, but I've heard the upkeep is real PITA. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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