I've just inherited an electric upright bass and would like to identify it. My wife's father, who had played double bass since he was 14 and gigged as in a piano duo/trio into his 70s, bought it toward the end of his life to make things easier. I'm an average guitar player and want to give this a try. It would help if someone could identify it, so I could find its manual to understand its two toggles, two volume controls and electronics. (This bass has bridge and neck PUs, so I'm guessing they're comparable to an electric guitar switch ... but why guess?) The only text on the body is "Solid Acoustic Standard." The tuners are Grover. The extendable foot is controlled by a Specialized quick release clamp -- a company and part I recognize from my bicycle wheels. Here are three photos (the insertable arm isn't attached). New to the site, and I appreciate your expertise. Thanks for any help.
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Double Bass Identify this EUB?
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I think it looks like a Clevinger, but different to mine which is the keyhole shape. I think I have seen pictures of your shape when I looked for Clevinger EUBs a while ago.
The control pots at the edge are also different to mine which are on the top. I also think I have not seen this bridge type before.
But Clevinger EUBs did evolve a lot over time, so it is totally possible that it is a Clevinger.
I got mine used from an US-based player who went back from Germany and left his instrument with a friend for sale, so I never had a direct contact to the manufacturer.
Maybe @Ric Vice knows more about Clevingers?
The control pots at the edge are also different to mine which are on the top. I also think I have not seen this bridge type before.
But Clevinger EUBs did evolve a lot over time, so it is totally possible that it is a Clevinger.
I got mine used from an US-based player who went back from Germany and left his instrument with a friend for sale, so I never had a direct contact to the manufacturer.
Maybe @Ric Vice knows more about Clevingers?
It’s one of the original Clevenger Basses. The preanp is passive volume and tone, the top three ways switch selects the Bartolini Pickup, both pickups or the bridge piezoelectric pickup. The bottom two way switch is a phase switch.
According the write-up to which I linked in my first reply, the two pots are respective volume controls for each pickup, the three way switch is as Ric described above, and the other switch is a treble cut. The writer did indicate that he had added Walter Harley's piezo buffer and a battery box, so I suppose it's possible the controls have been altered. I don't know which is correct....Ric's post or the link....but a little experimentation keeping those two possibilities in mind should figure it out. Let us know!
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I owned this exact model except mine was a custom color red. That version of the bridge was pretty crude. Martin Clevenger switched it out
- for a front slice wooden bridge wedge sitting atop a spruce resonator with three piezo’s mounted center, right, and left.
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