Double Bass BASS O LIN: What the hell is that?!?

[Reg Braithwaite]

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BASS O LIN
What the hell is that?!?
I don't know, but it's made in USA
Can be played like a normal bass or upright
Fingerpick or bow
Magnetic & piezo pickups
Alembic Frequency Unit
34" scale

 

[DoubleMIDI]

Fingerboard curvature is rather low, 34”-strings are electric bass guitar strings. Closest are old undamped single steel wire core double bass strings similar to Präzision which nobody plays nowadays.
Hard to bow, strings sound like an electric bass guitar, even with the piezo pickup. (I had DB strings that were just longer BG strings on my EUB and they sounded like a BG.)

For me it is a bass guitar that could be played in both ways, but not an (electric) double bass.

 

[Don Hergert]

What the hell is that?!?

Some folks would answer "a waste of nice wood"... But it looks to me like an attempt to duplicate the shape of the shoulders of a DB out of a 1x12 alder plank.

How long is the end pin?