Recent content by BluegrassBasss

Thanks everyone for the thoughtful replies and suggestions on this. I'm intrigued by many of these ideas. As for the provenance of the bass, it's pretty old (pre- 1950s), but definitely not a fine, or valuable bass. No label other than a fairly generic 'copy of a antonius strad.. blah blah -...

Yes, it's been to a few Luthiers, but the buzz either disappears when I'm trying to show it or they simply haven't been able to find it looking for the usual culprits (splits, cracks, loose bass bar etc.). One luthier found that the buzz was slightly improved by adding a second sound post near...

I have such an annoying body buzz that rears its ugly head every summer. No open seams or cracks and it's not a soundpost, endpin or bass bar buzz. A total mystery that seems to be tied somehow to humidity. It's an old German plywood shop bass. The only thing that seems to help is adding...