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MusicMan Sabre not popular?

#21
I think the 4HH Musicman offerings have pretty much filled the gap that the Sabre used to. At this point the Sabre seems redundant. I'm not sure what the difference would be between a Sabre and my 4HH Sterling.

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Mike Sorr said:
Thanks. I was asking because I genuinely didn’t know.
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No problem - sorry about the short post, I was interrupted when I wrote it. :)

The pickups are mini-humbuckers, so they’re a little smaller than the pickups on a StingRay. The bridge pickup is an 8-pole, the neck pickup a 16-pole, which presumably is the reason for the pickup covers. The preamp is a 2-band, and more or less the same as the one in the 2-band StingRay, but suitably modified to work with 2 pickups. That’s the Classic Sabre, BTW. The original Sabre was a little different.
 
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LadyLoveStingRay5 said:
Why is the MusicMan Sabre rarely mentioned here?
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It's a secret! "The more it's mentioned here,The less they are for me to pick up on the cheap!" No, But for real they came out late in the game after the Stingray for only about 4 years and nobody took to them so they moved on to the Stingray Cutlass bass I & II (Sabre bass body with the Modulus Graphlte neck) and they lasted for only a few years also then gone!
 
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Ive got one of the Reissues and its one of my all time favorite basses. SUPERB build quality, super comfortable, about 9lbs and soooo playable. Ive been a Stingray lover for years, but the Sabre makes the same tones, but gives sooo much more range! The beauty of the birdseye neck is just beguiling. I really do wish the switches were an option to be an exact "reissue" but what they put out is top shelf, and Im more than stoked that I dont have the misaligned bridge/string issue that the originals had.
 
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corndog said:
I think they have some of the best tones available, and want one. But I have never seen one, in a city the the size of Toronto, 3 million population, you'd think there would be a few around. One came up for sales used, but the ask was to high, so I didn't consider it. So why aren't they more popular, because there is none to buy is my guess.
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Toronto hates MM basses. I couldn't even get my Sterling or my Stingray into any shops for consignment! In the end, I sold one of them to a dude in MTL, and the other I shipped down to Florida.

As for the Sabre, it's always been my favourite style MM bass, although I've never had the chance to try one. I imagine that for most people if the choice was between a Sterling, a two-pup Stingray, or a Sabre, most ppl would look past the Sabre.
 
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superheavyfunk said:
Toronto hates MM basses. I couldn't even get my Sterling or my Stingray into any shops for consignment! In the end, I sold one of them to a dude in MTL, and the other I shipped down to Florida.

As for the Sabre, it's always been my favourite style MM bass, although I've never had the chance to try one. I imagine that for most people if the choice was between a Sterling, a two-pup Stingray, or a Sabre, most ppl would look past the Sabre.
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If the New Sabre bass was made just like a 70's Sabre bass I would be all over it!
 

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