Our church altar is small and crowded, and I bumped the bridge against the choir rail while moving the bass into position on Easter Sunday.
I noticed my bridge was leaning to towards the tailpiece after the encounter with the choir rail and used a paper back book to tap it back in place with the strings backed off a little. It played, but lost it's growl and volume.
So this week I took it down to Lemur Music after setting up an appointment with Tammy and Jason. Jason said I got lucky and the bridge was pretty much where it should be, but he took the sound post out, and reset it, two times. Apparently it had also gotten disturbed when I slacked off the strings. Wow, what a difference, both on volume, but tone as well. The D string never really growled when played open, but now it does, if you hit it hard. These old solid carved basses move around he explained, and we have had some pretty wild weather this winter/spring with cold snaps, heavy rain and then hot dry days between storms(pineapple express) which promoted movement of the wood.
The bass sounds better than ever, Jason did the adjustments right on the spot saving me having to make a second trip to pick it up. The minimal fee was ridiculously cheap, these people take care their customers and give expert, prompt service. I have had them do a lot of repairs and service to this old bass, and each one made significant improvements. One reason it had languished and fallen into disrepair was the costs I had been quoted by other bass shops. But Lemur made it totally affordable to get this bass fixed up to where it sounds good, and plays good too. Thanks Tammy and Jason!
I noticed my bridge was leaning to towards the tailpiece after the encounter with the choir rail and used a paper back book to tap it back in place with the strings backed off a little. It played, but lost it's growl and volume.
So this week I took it down to Lemur Music after setting up an appointment with Tammy and Jason. Jason said I got lucky and the bridge was pretty much where it should be, but he took the sound post out, and reset it, two times. Apparently it had also gotten disturbed when I slacked off the strings. Wow, what a difference, both on volume, but tone as well. The D string never really growled when played open, but now it does, if you hit it hard. These old solid carved basses move around he explained, and we have had some pretty wild weather this winter/spring with cold snaps, heavy rain and then hot dry days between storms(pineapple express) which promoted movement of the wood.
The bass sounds better than ever, Jason did the adjustments right on the spot saving me having to make a second trip to pick it up. The minimal fee was ridiculously cheap, these people take care their customers and give expert, prompt service. I have had them do a lot of repairs and service to this old bass, and each one made significant improvements. One reason it had languished and fallen into disrepair was the costs I had been quoted by other bass shops. But Lemur made it totally affordable to get this bass fixed up to where it sounds good, and plays good too. Thanks Tammy and Jason!
