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08-21-2010, 11:52 AM
| | | | What kind of bass is this, EKO, Aria, Silvertone, or what?
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08-21-2010, 12:01 PM
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08-21-2010, 12:01 PM
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08-21-2010, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chatham, Illinois | | | Ugh that headstock is like a cello or an upright bass. Looks rly weird on a guitar |
08-21-2010, 12:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Catford, London | | "Steel Adjustable Neck" usually indicates a Matsumoku product. Could have been badged as an Aria, but equally likely to have been branded otherwise.
Give it a punt on the Matsumoku forum, and/or drop into this megathread over on Basschat.co.uk. There's a few experts out there, so you might be able to whittle it down to one or two brands.
Pete.
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08-21-2010, 12:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | That scroll headstock is beautiful and unusual!
The bass was made in the Matsumoku factory in Japan - the tailpiece, neck plate and other visible cues tell me that. It could be a Univox, Aria, Lyle, Epiphone or any of the other brands made by that factory. Most of the Matsu basses are pretty well made, although the pickups generally aren't the very best. With a good setup it should play well. The brand really isn't that material with the Matsu basses.
I'm a fan of the Matsumoku basses and think you have a nice bass - but fer cryin' out loud, clean it up!!!
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08-21-2010, 12:24 PM
| | | | I vote Univox as well, but they were often rebranded and thrown around as different companies. |
08-21-2010, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim  I'm a fan of the Matsumoku basses and think you have a nice bass - but fer cryin' out loud, clean it up!!! | eh, then again, maybe not...robbie shakespeare once did an interview where he talked about using family man's old hofner and loving it but he never cleaned it. one day he got a wild hair and cleaned it, and he said it was never the same and lost the tonality he liked and he quit using it.
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08-21-2010, 06:00 PM
| | | | That's it! Thanks, Jimmy.
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08-21-2010, 06:14 PM
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08-21-2010, 06:24 PM
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08-21-2010, 06:36 PM
| | | | Haven't heard it yet, it doesn't make a sound when plugged in. But I'm an electronics tech, so I really don't think I'll have any problem getting it to work. It currently belongs to a friend of mine, and I am considering making him an offer for it.
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08-21-2010, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL Univox, I had that model in Sunburst | you didn't spray paint it green? 
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