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Benthoven
I'm a double-bass repair specialist, currently doing tons of setups and repairs for The Violin Shoppe, Sam Ash Music, and Davidson Violins, and growing my luthier practice as quickly as I can. I perform regularly on both upright and electric basses. I can sight-read a big band book or learn and memorize originals by ear, and I can double on guitar as well.
Member statistics
- Messages
- 76
- Reaction score
- 112
- Birthday
- August 31
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
- Gender
- Male
- Current Setup
- Shen 3/4 Double Bass, Gage Realist pickup and Fishman preamp, plugged into my QSC 1000 powered monitor. Also a 1973 Fender Jazz Bass, 1969 Ampeg AMUB-1 fretless 4-string, Moolon 5-string Jazz Bass, a 1980 Guild B50 Acoustic Bass Guitar, and of course, my custom double-neck Knowlton Fretted and Fretless 4-string bass(es?) plugged into an Ampeg Micro SVT.
- Occupation
- Upright Bass Repair Specialist, guitars and basses
- Favorite Genres
- Motown, Blues, Big Band & Jazz, Jam Band
- Gigs and Ensembles
- Bruce Harper Big Band, Jim Hemming Orchestra, The Las Vegas Jazz Connection (big band), Rusty Davis orchestra, Cockeyed Junior (blues &originals) Amity Rose (Originals & jazz) Southern Breeze Band, The Fundudes
- Previously Owned Gear
- Not enough space to list it all.
- G.A.S. List
- An Ampeg SVT, SWR 900 head with the 8x8 cabinet, a vintage Alembic fretted 4-string, a 1960's Hofner
- Influences and Teachers
- Jamerson, Jaco, Stanley, Marcus, and Victor, of course, but Berry Oakley was a huge influence on me, Paul McCartney, and Phil Lesh, and Motown
- Hobbies and Interests
- Avid woodworker, luthier, Pipe Organbuilder
- Available for Instruction?
- Bass Guitar Instruction
- Double Bass Instruction
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