New Bass Company

No 5 strings?!!?!?! They needa expand their inventory :\

 

Wow...phew -wipes sweat off forehead- i was worried there for a minute

 

You registered here just to tell us about yet another company remarketing cheap Korean instruments?

 

Maybe they're really GOOD cheap instruments?

 

Kinda like the Essex basses are pretty good and at a really good price?

 

Naw, those are an phenomenon that's being investigated by the CDC.

 

Oh...is that why I love mine so much?

 

Quite possibly.

 

Yes, I know I'm resurrecting a zombie thread. But it's almost the only mention I can find of Windsong basses anywhere. The web site is gone.

I'm bringing this up because I'm away from home (ironically, near Scotia, NY, where the OP is from), didn't want to travel with one of my basses, and have borrowed a bass here that turns out to be a Windsong.

It's not bad. Active, two pickups, 24 frets. It hasn't seen much use recently, badly needs new strings, a good cleaning, and a decent setup. A few quick tweaks got the action down to playable. The saddles are almost bottomed out, but I'm not going to go to the trouble of shimming the neck. The bridge probably should have been mounted another 1/16" towards the G string side.

Anyway, does anyone know what happened to Windsong? Vanished as quickly as they appeared? Anyone have a Windsong?

 

“Windsong” was a bad name to begin with. I’d imagine that didn’t help.

 

I can’t seem to forget you, your Windsong stays on my mind.

 

Exactly.

 

Pics?

 

Maybe this weekend... after I clean it up!

 

I should have taken a "before" picture... but it would have been hard to capture the grunge on the fingerboard or rust on the strings. It cleaned up pretty good, though.



A fresh set of Chromes, some polish... and a shout out to Drome Sound in Schenectady, I've bought three basses from them (two of which I still have), they had what I needed today. A quick stop at the hardware store for some essential tools. One old rag and some elbow grease (not pictured). A quick setup (might not be done with the G string yet ). I'll get a new battery for it tomorrow, just on general principles (it's working, but who knows how long it will last before the bad stuff leaks out).

The E and A saddles are bottomed out, action would probably go lower if the neck was shimmed. The G string is already as low as it can go without buzzing in a couple spots (I think the 15th and maybe the 17th frets are a little high).

Pretty decent as a loaner until I get home!