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For sale Yamaha TRB 5 Fretless (heavy mods)

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$500.00
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5
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I bought this bass thinking I might want to learn to play fretless someday. Well I still might, but not anytime soon. Thus this bass is just sitting in its case in my closet and needs a loving home. Ok, what is the story on this bass? I bought this bass here on TB last year after about a week of playing the pre-amp died...I tried to contact Yamaha but never got a response from them (email, voice mail,etc). So I picked up a BassMods pre and had that installed. Once I got it back, the output of the pickups when married with the BassMods Pre was pretty wimpy....So I picked up some Nordstrand soap bar pickups. Bam! great sound, great output, not wimpy! since the P2 soap bars did not fit so I had a couple of sleeves made. All of this and the bass sound better than it ever did with the original equipment but, alas, I really don't have time to learn to play well on it.

Yamaha TRB made in Japan. First 500 bucks takes it, ship in a hard, but used, case.

Will trade for Carvin Icon 5 or Carvin PB4 or PB5
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Mar 6, 2005
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This looks like an early one, which should be 34". Later ones were 35", but I don't know when that started. Do you know? I may be interested if 35" scale.
 

Puma

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I actually don't know, it does look like an early one
This looks like an early one, which should be 34". Later ones were 35", but I don't know when that started. Do you know? I may be interested if 35" scale.

I actually do not know for sure, what is on their website is 35inch. But you could well be right. The serial number is 8FN2130 I am doing my google thing trying to find the exact specs for this but so far I am not successful.
 

Puma

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Apr 5, 2010
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Measure from the nut to the center of the bridge. 34" = 34" scale; 35" = 35" scale.
So the serial number is: 8FN2130 From what I can tell, that makes it a 1998 bass built in July of that year. Therefore it probably has 34" scale (I am not sure when they switched to 35")