Ernie Ball dealers Canada

Long and McQuade do stock them now. Its never very many but they are there.

 

Never had problems ordering from BassCentral - in fact they are quite helpful...customer service is really good and Beaver even checked up to see if their sales guy got back to me.

Long and McQuade stock them in limited numbers.

My suggestion is to give the "Guitar Booth" in Hamilton (Cdn distributor) a call or email and see if any of the Canadian retailers have exactly what you want...again, they were very helpful in me getting to try out a Sterling by MM Ray 35...

http://theguitarbooth.com

 

L&M do stock MM basses, mostly Stingrays, as mentioned.

I bought mine privately. Check your local kijiji and CL, ebay. Also check out the forums at
http://www.guitarscanada.com/Board/index.php

 

EBMM has strict dealer agreements about US dealers not being allowed to sell brand new product out of US borders.
The only exceptions is discontinued models over 2yrs old.

 

Not sure if you have these out east, but Mother's Music carries them as well.

Mother's Music

Edit: No affiliation, btw

 

L&M has always been a MM dealer, even going back to the preEB days from what I understand. The Vancouver stores always had product when I've been stopped by.

 

i was at steves a couple days back, they had rays


also toronto's craigslist constantly has stingrays on them

 

On a side note, the new SBMM models aren't in at L&M yet, but should be soon. I've been bugging them for info for the last month or so and they were at least able to give me their prices (CDN):

Sterling SB14 $745 plus taxes
Sterling Ray34 $810 and up plus taxes
Sterling Ray35 $880 and up plus taxes

I was initially GASing for an SB14 but I think I'll just save my cash and buy a used EBMM Sterling off of TB (my college grad gift to myself, provided I have enough OSAP left over ). I live close enough to the states that I could head over for a weekend to pick one up.

 

The L&M on Bloor in Toronto has quite a good selection of EBMM gear. They just got in one of the anniversary ones with the H/S/S pickup arrangement, they had a Bongo 6 for a while (may still be there). L&M definitely does get EBMM stuff all the time, probably better selection at the big stores (Bloor as well as the new one in Markham) but the smaller locations can always transfer in a piece that a customer wants.

 

In Montreal, Steve's and especially Italmelodie both have pretty good stocks of Musicman basses. Italmelodie is a new MM dealer and has some really nice stuff--Sterling Ball was in there last summer and insisted he wanted Ital to carry MM, despite the fact that Steve's had been the Montreal dealer for quite some time.

 

I never seen a musicman at Italmeldie... Do they carry them now?

 

I think Steve's and L&M are your only options locally in Ottawa. I got my SR5HH Dargie from L&M 2 years back.
They may not know what the SLO is, so be prepared to bring them up to speed. Ask for one of the MM specialists...

LR

 

Developing a relationship with a good retailer like Long & McQuade will pay off in the long run.

There's always more things which one will need and L & M frequently has sales.

BTW. They have an excellent bass dept. at their 925 Bloor Street West (Toronto) store.

 

I bought both my Rays from L&M in Vancouver and its worked out very well. They don't tend to carry many Bongos for some reason but I'm a lefty and both my Ray4 and Ray5 were in stock items that the store had brought in on spec.

L&M is a very fair store to deal with. I had a problem with my Ray4 a year after i bought it and they paid the shipping to send it to the SLO factory and facilitated the repair. When the bass was shipped back from California, it arrived with the case completely smashed on one end. The salesman at L&M didn't hesitate and brought me out a brand new case from the back and replaced it on the spot. I was impressed and really appreciate that kind of service.