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    Double Bass Is this safe? Slack strings, no soundpost, vertical

    Thanks Schoolhouse, I appreciate it. Yeah, it does deserve to be played. Actually, it deserves to have a checkup by an instrument maker first... there are bulgy bits and stuff, maybe always there but I don't know if they got worse. It was restored by Ian Highfield, in Birmingham UK. He...
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    Double Bass Is this safe? Slack strings, no soundpost, vertical

    Hi all, I have an old double bass, that has had a lot of repair work done in its history. (The restorer claimed some of the front might be >200 years old) For the last 15 years it has been barely used. But, it's been fully stringed up all that time, until I moved it to Australia. I...
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