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Help identify bass,Pi symbol,Paian instruments labels
- Thread starter Mshraderbass
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I recently bought this bass with no pickups or electronics. I installed EMG 35X pickups and electronics in it. Don’t have a clue who made it but looks like an Alembic lookalike or similar. Has anyone of you guys seen one of these
Yes the back has 3 control compartments for controls and electronics that could have been for extra controls,switches,electronics. I used the one normal control cavity but it has holes for more. The metal plates on back are precise and all screw holes have brass inserts. I have searched and googled the name and Pi symbol but have come up with nothing. Some of the old Alembic basses look similar but so much more elaborate…
Doing a quick Bing search for links and/or images just reveals that the search engine thinks I spelled piano incorrectly.
A DEEP THOUGHT: Could be the maker went under before webs and no one's ever done an entry about them. Lost to obscurity?
A DEEP THOUGHT: Could be the maker went under before webs and no one's ever done an entry about them. Lost to obscurity?
No idea. It's pretty cool. Does it feel good?
Zero fret, really pretty neck. Nice looking lam on the headstock. Rock it.
Zero fret, really pretty neck. Nice looking lam on the headstock. Rock it.
I plan to play it.The neck is nice C shape,definitely not a baseball bat…
Was trying to understand that long headstock but thinking it could be a mass thing,To help balance. The body seems to be Maple Top and back with 3 compartments. It’s very light,a little over 8 pounds
Was trying to understand that long headstock but thinking it could be a mass thing,To help balance. The body seems to be Maple Top and back with 3 compartments. It’s very light,a little over 8 poundsAttachments
It also has dual truss rods. I’ll post a pic later as I’d have to remove that plate that’s in front of the neck pickup
I tried a search and got nothing. Looks very well made from top quality materials. Nice find and good luck with it.
Polish bass player Wojtek Pilichowski (there are different ways to spell his name!) has his own signature basses with a Pi symbol (usually on the fingerboard). As far as I know they are made by Maruszczyk Instruments. Maybe yours is one of the earlier "prototypes"!?!
(This is just one of his basses... there are several different types.)
This part in particular is interesting:
"Nance convinced a manager for jazz guitarist Stanley Clarke to let Nance show his guitars to the musician during a break in his performance at the Russian River Jazz Festival, his wife said.
Clarke was impressed and agreed to take the two instruments in exchange for feedback on how they played, she said.
Those instruments took years for him to produce, and would be the only ones he'd finish."
"Nance convinced a manager for jazz guitarist Stanley Clarke to let Nance show his guitars to the musician during a break in his performance at the Russian River Jazz Festival, his wife said.
Clarke was impressed and agreed to take the two instruments in exchange for feedback on how they played, she said.
Those instruments took years for him to produce, and would be the only ones he'd finish."
Thanks for trying. Btw, I don’t have a regular Fender made P bass right now but do have a p-bass type vintage body loaded with Bartolini hb soapbars with vintage Music man Sabre neck hehe
Just in case you didn't read the above: Your bass was probably formerly owned by Stanley Clarke.
