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Double Bass adjustable soundpost – Anima Nova

jonas

jonas

Dec 9, 2003
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As we all love to discuss new gear inventions and innovations here … I have a new one to review: Pal Molnar, a musician from Germany, has developed a Carbon fibre soundpost which is adjustable: Anima Nova.

I've tried to built a similar design some time ago, but my idea as to use it as a caliper just for measuring the required lengths and angles of a soundpost. But this one is meant to stay permanently in the instrument.

i've already tried it briefly – it works, but is not as easy to install as ist might look (I'm still better in setting the wooden one than this one). Considering the price, it will not replace the wooden soundpost on the market, but in special cases, the Anima Nova might be a problem solver.

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#5
Soundposts are still largely a mystery to me, but would this, or something like it, work/be a good idea for removable neck/travel basses that fly and as a result can potentially see very different climates? Or basses that experience a lot of summer-winter shifts that have a summer and winter post?

I have no idea how it's going to sound in comparison to a traditional post, but I could see it being useful in a few situations.
 
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DoubleMIDI said:
The next version of that soundpost might contain a motor for length change, a force sensor for pressure, Bluetooth control of the motor with a settable force limit and a magnetic coupling to the post setter, so the bassist may set the post himself. But he has to sell a bass to afford that one... :D
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Will there be an Iphone App for this? You could program it to dial in a few extra newtons of force for the Forte sections of your Shostakovitch symphony, and then dial it back down for the slow movements. I can't wait!
 
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james condino said:
Tenzing carried his a$$ the whole way!
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James...... and the rest of you folks who "liked" this unfounded and insulting comment:

I usually enjoy and appreciate your comments so I was reluctant to reply. But what the heck. BS needs to be called out. Maybe I should have sent a PM but future readers of your post may think it has some credence. I was fortunate to have been able to chat in person many years ago with Edmund Hillary about his Mt Everest climb.

Do you have any evidence to support this?

I suggest you ALL do some reading on Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's role in climbing Mt Everest. Both of them were magnificent climbers. No-one could have climbed Mount Everest alone that first time. There was an incident where Tenzing saved Hillary's life after he fell down a crevasse while setting up a base camp. But that was before the two were selected to make the final climb to the peak.
Here's what the reporter from the Times, who was part of the expedition, wrote about Hillary's climbing efforts:

"Hillary working in the half-light, "huge and cheerful, his movement not so much graceful as unshakably assured, his energy almost demonic. He had a tremendous, bursting, elemental, infectious, glorious vitality about him, like some bright, burly diesel express pounding across America." None of this diminishes Tenzing's incredible accomplishment.

I also believe Hillary and Tenzing made an agreement about who actually reached the peak first....for many years both said they reached the top together. When I chatted with Hillary in person about this, he would only say they both got there together. But later Tenzing said in his autobiography that Hillary stepped on the peak first and then Tenzing right behind him.

You might also want to check out the role of Dr Griffith Pugh in all of this too. Without his contribution, it is likely that neither Hillary nor Tenzing would have made it.

So your claim that Tenzing carried Hillary's "a$$ the WHOLE WAY" is pure BS. You have no clue what you are talking about. You are denigrating Edmund Hillary's role in the climb and ignoring what Tenzing himself has said about their exploits.

I can't imagine why you would want to do that on a public forum...especially here on a double bass thread about adjustable soundposts.
 
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robobass said:
Will there be an Iphone App for this? You could program it to dial in a few extra newtons of force for the Forte sections of your Shostakovitch symphony, and then dial it back down for the slow movements. I can't wait!
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This might be part of the controlling mobile app (using a sequencer for force control or a realtime volume and frequency analysis).

The version after the next one has this built into the soundpost as well as a vibration charger for the internal battery. :hyper:
 

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