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06-07-2012, 03:32 PM
|  | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Just the tuners. They're lighter weight.
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06-07-2012, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | | looks like maybe just different (lighter) tuners on the bongo 6 strings.
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06-07-2012, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Epitaph04  Just the tuners. They're lighter weight. | Thanks... I´m getting mad waiting for my new bongo  (the black one, same as I´ve posted in link above)  |
06-07-2012, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: East Oakland, California | | check out the musicman forums. They have been talking about this for a while now.
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06-07-2012, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. | | | They are now on all Bongos, Big Als, and Reflexes/GCers.
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06-07-2012, 05:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Cleveland, OH | | | Older ones look better.
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06-07-2012, 05:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Musicman20 They are now on all Bongos, Big Als, and Reflexes/GCers. | I could see on the Bongos and Reflexes with the different style headstock, but the Big Al with the classic EBMM headstock would just look weird with a style of different tuner, IMO. |
06-07-2012, 05:54 PM
| | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | But they shave off a pound off the bass IIRC.
Its just too bad they wont be aftermarket. Id love some on my Bongo 6
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06-07-2012, 05:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: White Plains | | | They're ugly
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06-07-2012, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: San Diego, California | | | I think the shape is alright. Maybe if they were a little bit bigger they'd be more like the original. It seems like it's too "guitary" of a style with the smaller tuners.
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06-07-2012, 06:48 PM
|  | Thanks to Alembic, I'll have G.A.S. until I die. | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New York City | | | They remind me of the tuners on the super super cheap Squiers.
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06-07-2012, 07:05 PM
| | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Tough crowd.
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06-07-2012, 07:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Lakewood Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Epitaph04 Tough crowd. | Yeah. Perhaps ugly is harsh. They definitely are not a visual upgrade though.
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06-07-2012, 07:18 PM
| | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | I dont think they were meant to be! Im actually pretty content with the clover tuners, but if those tuners take off weight from the bass, especially a fat Bongo 6 headstock, then im all for it!
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06-07-2012, 07:24 PM
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Endorsing artist: Musicman basses, Hipshot products | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: New York City | | Wow. My coupla month old Bongo just made it. Whew! 
Them new ones will take a little getting used to. Would look out of place with my other MMs. |
06-07-2012, 07:36 PM
|  | Bass player for Christ! | | | | | Yep, right now as I type this, I have a candy apple red Bongo 4 Hp with an abalone pickguard in route to me from Bass Central with the new tuners. It should be here sometime between Friday to Monday at the latest. It has the new light weight tuners on it so I am anxious to see how they will effect the overall feel of the bass. From what I have heard, it makes the bass feel a lot lighter.
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06-07-2012, 07:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Montréal, Canada | | | Holy wow, those are ugly. Fender shaved a noticeable amount of weight off their newer tuners without sacrificing the full-sized cloverleaf; I don't see why MM can't do the same. Those new tuners have 'vintage Soviet bass' written all over them.
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06-07-2012, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Epitaph04 But they shave off a pound off the bass IIRC.
Its just too bad they wont be aftermarket. Id love some on my Bongo 6 | They could have gone with some hipshot ultralites like fender and keep the clover key. |
06-07-2012, 08:13 PM
| | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | Maybe EBMM didn't want tuners to look like all the other clover tuners and maybe they didn't want to source tuners from another company GEEZ I DONT KNOW!! 
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