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Double Bass Upgrading the Back

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NicholasF

Jan 17, 2012
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Currently I have an Upton Gary Karr hybrid that I am totally in love with. I have the cash to upgrade and put a carved back on (i want plywood sides for the intense winters of potsdam)

Do you guys think it will be worth it? (For feel it is to me, I just am totally in love)

Will it be a candidate for a low c extension?

Will it be bad for my bass?

On a different note I'm also looking to upgrade my endpin, I am a strange hight and seated it doesn't help. Do people play bent endpin seated? Can I get a custom endpin made?
 
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NicholasF said:
Currently I have an Upton Gary Karr hybrid that I am totally in love with.
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Stop right there. :)

hdiddy said:
How much? You can't assume it's going to sound the same, or better after having it done. Yes it's a possibility, but things could also change in ways you didn't expect.

IMO, if it ain't broke...
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+1

Eric Hochberg said:
If you're "totally in love" with it now, leave it as is! Maybe Upton has a fully carved Karr model to compare or can tell you if anyone in your area has one.
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+1 again
 
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hdiddy said:
How much? You can't assume it's going to sound the same, or better after having it done. Yes it's a possibility, but things could also change in ways you didn't expect.

IMO, if it ain't broke...
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Once I read this it changed my mind, from the bass. I do love the instrument, but if I do something that
A) Ruins the instrument
B) Ruins it for the person after me
C) Makes me hate it

then honestly I do not want to do that. Thank you hdiddy, believe it or not you saved an innocent instrument from my selfishness. A new instrument means that someone else will be able to enjoy it, and I can still get the sound qualities that I want.
 

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