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Cool 60's basses (OTHER than main-stream brands)
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Yah - both pretty coolYup, hence the Triumph in both companies' stables.
Note the Framus "GLOBE" logo.
While I'd prefer a '50s Framus Triumph, I'd be more than happy to have a modern Warwick Triumph, too.
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Details? Never having played one, what do the various switches do? Is the upper G-side control V? A very narrow heal - is it short-scale? The roller-saddle bridge is such an elegant and simple solution/design. I bet it sounds great!
Typical Gretsch nonsense! One of the switches is the output: a three way "on-off-on" switch. Not sure why you'd need that. The other is a tone switch: it puts a capacitor in or out to cut the highs. The big knob is the volume. The lowest "switch" (with the red felt ring) is actually the knob of a mechanical lever that pushes the foam mute up against the strings.
It is a short-scale, similar to a Gibson. But there's so much wasted string length above the nut and below the bridge that you need to use regular 34" scale strings.
I was surprised at how much I like it. Honestly, I bought it because I have a 1963 Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennessean guitar that I love. When I came across a bass with the same body, I had to have it. Didn't have high hopes for it, but it sounds very cool in a rock context.
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I've used my hollow-bodies live and I'm never disappointed by how they fit in.
'68 Custom Kraft "Bone-buzzer" - 34" scale made in the US
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'60s Crusianelli w/OHSC - minty
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I saw this one, it's in great shape for a Crucianelli, very similar to the VOX Escort.
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1960's CREMONA - made in Bulgaria - with cool custom artwork -
So cool - love the colour gradation up the fb
So cool - love the colour gradation up the fb
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'60s Odessa (USSR Soviet) bass guitar with a very cool & unusual/unique pg.., my guess is it's someone's handwork - not 'stock' as I've seen this model with a less artistic pg.
Love the big round paddles/big gears tuners and asymmetric sunburst - wonder if they were stylistically picking up on how a vintage Fender sunburst wasn't completed under the pg.
Love the big round paddles/big gears tuners and asymmetric sunburst - wonder if they were stylistically picking up on how a vintage Fender sunburst wasn't completed under the pg.
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Hah! I just bought the Cremona violin-shaped bass. I offered the lowest choice listed (eBay now does this three-tier offer system, all under the asking price) and it was accepted. This is the second bass I bought from this very trustworthy UA, Ukraine seller Georgii/musicismysoul. I've never owned a violin-shaped bass and honestly was never drawn to one, but the artwork and non-Hofner shape was just quirky enough to hook me. The hand-painted artwork/custom finish especially - it'll compliment my 1970 Czech Jolana Kolorbas with artwork by Elana Konavalova. I have collected friend's artwork so it's kind of an outgrowth of my musician/artist sensibility.
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Hey @Eli_Kyiv - I know it's a long shot, but are you familiar with Heorhii Hladkov or Georgii?
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It is a big city but it can be a small world sometimes!
I looked at their other (eBay) items and they seem like a big seller of different items which include musical instruments.
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Another cool Orpheus Hebros Super Bass from the same seller - a really handsome bass. I like the pu placement - more modern than the usual north-south positioning on that era's hollow-bodies.
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Speaking of violin-shaped basses - I could start a thread featuring the hundreds(?) of violin-shaped basses that have been made since the early '60s. I imagine Hofner was the first, and because of one Paul McCartney many variations of that style of bass were produced by many makers across the world. Some, like the Kremona were hybrids of other traditional instrument shapes and some were just a bit.., club-footed -
Like this Teisco - I do like the hs though...
Like this Teisco - I do like the hs though...
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more... Jolana Typhoon - cool beveled pu-surrounds, barrel rocker switches and hs shape -
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A comprehensive guide to Soviet era guitars/basses on Reverb - more guitars than basses, but the most common ones appearing for sale on Reverb & eBay are pictured.
https://reverb.com/news/guide-to-soviet-era-guitars
https://reverb.com/news/guide-to-soviet-era-guitars
