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How diverse is your bass collection?
- Thread starter BAG
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I admire your obsession!
Very diverse: 4, 5, 6 and 7 strings, a 8 string double course and a 12 string triple course. All sorts of pickups and strings. Fretted and fretless. Short scale, long scale, extended scale and fanned. Acoustics, hollow bodies and solids.
There are more basses in my house than you can see in this picture, they have to live in different rooms due to space limitations.
And they are all left handed!!
A man who knows what he likes! I have a '67 Cherry Starfire, one p/u near the neck. It thumps all night long. I usually play my fist set with my 1954 Fender, then I switch to the Guild for the 2nd and 3rd set.Well not very diverse at all since they are all Guilds!
However, they are a bunch of different Guilds!
How do you like the Custom Eastwood Classic IV (I assume that's the semi-hollow)? I am kinda getting into semi-H these days. I picked up an old Guld Starefire that I really like. I'm a P-bass guy, so it's a big difference.
A proper "obsession" would include at least one sousaphone or tuba!!!
Very diverse: 4, 5, 6 and 7 strings, a 8 string double course and a 12 string triple course. All sorts of pickups and strings. Fretted and fretless. Short scale, long scale, extended scale and fanned. Acoustics, hollow bodies and solids.
There are more basses in my house than you can see in this picture, they have to live in different rooms due to space limitations.
And they are all left handed!!
My first thought was "holy crap, what a collection". My second thought was similar to yours. Next time a lefty player says "there's no left handed basses out there" i'm going to show them this picture.
Six basses, all 4 strings, but different body woods, fretboard woods, pickup combinations and colors.
I think I mentioned before in a older post my collection grew from my family wanting to buy me a gift for whatever occasion and it always turned it bass gear since it is my passion.
2 4-strings (one p-bass knockoff that was my first bass that's more of a conversation piece, and my MM Stingray)
2 5-strings (my new Sire Marcus Miller M7 and my acoustic Furch)
2 6-strings (Marleaux Consat Custom and Warwick Thumb BO)
I cover all basses (heh) from old-school vintage vibes through relatively conservative modern designs to high-end custom stuff. Pretty happy for now.
2 5-strings (my new Sire Marcus Miller M7 and my acoustic Furch)
2 6-strings (Marleaux Consat Custom and Warwick Thumb BO)
I cover all basses (heh) from old-school vintage vibes through relatively conservative modern designs to high-end custom stuff. Pretty happy for now.
Pretty heavily weighted towards vintage - I've had many, many more (worked in a vintage shop back when they were not crazy expensive). Some of those I have currently:
Back is 1957 King Mortone and 1930s Pfretzschner aluminum uprights.
1964 Ephiphone Embassy Deluxe (defretted)
1965 Meazzi Hollywood Jupiter (one of the first active basses - long scale)
2017 Padalka Ennea - Russia (I also have a 5 string multi-scale with Nordstrand pups and Aguilar preamp from the same luthier)
1959 Fender P
1964 Gibson t-bird
Late 1960s Orfeus violin bass - Bulgaria
Also have a Dano Longhorn, MIJ Fender Pink Paisley P and an Alcoa upright.
Back is 1957 King Mortone and 1930s Pfretzschner aluminum uprights.
1964 Ephiphone Embassy Deluxe (defretted)
1965 Meazzi Hollywood Jupiter (one of the first active basses - long scale)
2017 Padalka Ennea - Russia (I also have a 5 string multi-scale with Nordstrand pups and Aguilar preamp from the same luthier)
1959 Fender P
1964 Gibson t-bird
Late 1960s Orfeus violin bass - Bulgaria
Also have a Dano Longhorn, MIJ Fender Pink Paisley P and an Alcoa upright.
