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For sale 1969-1970 Clear Dan Armstrong Bass

Sold
$1,900.00
Strings
4
Status
This item has been sold and is no longer available!

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Selling my original Ampeg Dan Armstrong lucite bass, 1969-1970 (not a reissue), serial # D204A. Everything is original and all the electronics work. 30" scale, rosewood (I believe) fretboard. The bass plays really well, and the pickup has wide tone range and sounds great. There is light scuffing and wear on the bass, pickup and pickguard, the pickguard lettering has faded (though is still visible) and some lacquer has worn off the neck (see photos).

The bass comes with its original hardshell case but the case has stenciling and masking tape on it, and unfortunately no handle.

Right now Guitar Center Hollywood has one of these listed for $3500...

$1900 shipped CONUS. Paypal OK.

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Comments

Jeff Elkins

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Sep 13, 2007
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The bassist in the Air Force band that performed at my school in the late 70's had one of these. It was, and still is, one of the most amazing instruments I've ever seen. Yours appears to be in excellent shape, considering others I've seen on ebay, etc.

GLWTS!
 
Jul 9, 2016
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Very nice—most of these (mine included) suffer from the brown rubbery coating on the pickup peeling away. I also don't see any of the very common pickguard cracking around the output jack. Many, if not most (again, like mine) have had a large fender washer added there to strengthen it.

This is the earlier version, without the tone switch. I forget at which serial number they added a switch that brought different caps into play. Ampeg released a service bulletin detailing how to retrofit the switch to earlier basses. (Mine is without the switch as well.)

Speaking of tone, the pickup is actually two differently voiced pickups sandwiched together, and the tone knob is actually a pan pot that blends from one to the other.

This is a very nice example. GLWTS!
 

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