Double Bass Missing my bass

[Anne Millington]

If you are indeed looking for a new bass, I hope you can find a good one that blows you away, and lessens the feeling of loss.
It occurred to me, just like couples adopting or using IVF, as soon as you have your acquired baby inside the house, you get pregnant.

 

[Low Main]

When I hear about things like this, I try to help find the stolen stuff. Just poking around online as anyone would do.

I've found basses I thought might be the ones in question, but they were close matches, not the actual stolen basses.

I make sure I have something promising before contacting the owner - don't want to waste their time with false leads and get their hopes up.

It's disappointing not to hit the jackpot, but the owners have been appreciative of the effort and if I ever do locate a stolen bass, that'll be a good day.

When someone steals gear that's been in use for more than one generation, they're stealing your chapter in the story of that instrument. It's personal.

 

[Lee Moses]

maybe we should check the whereabouts of manny from kolsteins and see if he was in the area at the time of this theft

 

[Heiwa]

Twenty years ago you should have thought about putting an Apple Air Tag in it.

Those were released in 2021

 

[Lee Moses]

Those were released in 2021

 

[AGCurry]

1975. My Kay had been smashed in a band-bus accident, and I was borrowing an old pancake bass from McKinney-Mason music store. I had a '56 Chevy; the only way to get a bass in the car was to slide it in through a rear-seat door, with the neck hanging out an open window. Twenty minutes in a restaurant... came back out and gone baby gone.

 

[wompwomp]

I played the same guitar for ~20 years, around that time I'd started looking around for my next 20-year instrument.

I hassled through buying and selling a couple and ultimately found an amazing specimen Martin D-18, a forever guitar.

it didn't get stolen. what happened was I got a dire diagnosis and got rid of all my material possessions including the Martin. I ended up taking a real beating on the sale, all-in-all pretty much a disaster scenario.

I survived the ordeal. fast-forward a few years, I was stewing on the memory and a few beers and ended up sending a note to the shop that I consigned my guitar through. I got a note back that basically said 'move on bro'.

really pretty good advice.

 

[Ric Vice]

I don’t really know what I expect from posting this, maybe just venting.

About 20 years ago, someone broke into my house in South Carolina and stole my bass, among many other things. I was a student at the time, about to leave for NYC on a scholarship to study jazz. The bass was an old (mid 1800s?) French flatback with violin corners that I was in love with. It was pretty beat up when I got it, but I’d scraped together enough gig money to get it taken care of, put a new endpin in it, and gotten it playing and sounding great. A few times a year I go down the rabbit hole of trying to find it, but I don’t know the make and it’s a seemingly impossible task.

Like I said, I don’t know what I’m expecting by posting. But I miss my bass! Maybe some commiseration would be nice

Well I can definitely feel your pain. I’ve had my Mirecourt 5/8ths fortwonany years to count.

 

[Don Hergert]

Imagine loosing everything to a flood or fire, or some other natural or man-made disaster. It happens.

 

[Major Seven]

You need the team that found Mccartney's hofner.

 

[DaveMFM]

Hey, join the long line of people suing Manny! Might be another twenty years to get to the front of that line, but why not.