So I'm digging through some photos on my computer and found this. I reckon I saw it online and swiped it some time ago. This screams Matsumoku but does anyone know what company had them
make it, or what it's even called?
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Ok, what is this?
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Looks European to me, like Russian or from that vicinity. Not Japanese.
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If the output jack is a DIN jack, I'd say Russian or Eastern Block. Otherwise, it's shouting to me in Italian...
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And for all those years, they thought that the mass destruction weapons were in Iraq...It's a Borisov "Bas-1" made in the former USSR.
"Any good" would depend on your own expectations and wants. Today this would be an extremely outré bass to play. Here is a pic of the electronics:
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So fugly it's pretty.
The guy playing the blue one has opposite switch settings to the green one.
The guy playing the blue one has opposite switch settings to the green one.
You all didn't know? That's what they did with the rejected nuclear missile submarine arming switches! LOL
I wouldn't care if it worked or not...it'd just be cool to have one.
I wouldn't care if it worked or not...it'd just be cool to have one.
You must be kidding. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole."Any good" would depend on your own expectations and wants. Today this would be an extremely outré bass to play. Here is a pic of the electronics:
Designed by Leonid Fenderskinov, who invented the electric bass.
Christ! No wonder it took the Russki's 20 years to come up with a booster powerful enough to lift one of their nukes out of the silo.
I'm just surprised they didn't use bulkhead connectors between the pickups and controls!
I'm just surprised they didn't use bulkhead connectors between the pickups and controls!
My friend George (who is a 6'8" Pole) said he wouldn't touch it either.
Seriously though…those switches!
Last time I saw that type of toggle was on the console of some mainframes back in the '70s and (later) the earliest IMSAI personal computers. Talk about awesome!
From what I found online, it looks like three of the switches turn each pickup on/off. I imagine one of the knobs is a master volume and the rest of the controls are for built-in fuzz and/or phaser (not sure if every instrument had both or just one or the other).
Recently declassified CIA intel states that the Borisov Bas-1 was contracted by the KGB to smuggle modular launch systems into Cuba. These basses would've jacked into the A(mp)li(FiRe ) box for for the firing sequence. The toggle switches were used for the firing solution computer, range, control vectors, etc.
But seriously, I'd love to try one of those. They look cool in an eclectic way.
But seriously, I'd love to try one of those. They look cool in an eclectic way.
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