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Violin body basses

dlmarquez

dlmarquez

Jan 5, 2007
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Medellin Colombia
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I have a bit of a fetish for these things, and I know that there is another company in Germany besides Hofner that builds acoustic violin basses. Can anybody help me out here. This is a company that is still in business, but isn't very well known in the US.
Also, is there anybody out there building an EB-1 style bass. I know that Bud LeCompte builds one but I really don't care for the cutaway in the lower bout and I'm primarily interested in short scales.
thanks
 
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Hey,

We made this as a custom order for a Japanese customer
who collects violin basses.

It's a 32" scale 5-string with a piezo and a magnetic.
The Hofner-like tight string spacing was by request.

(Please don't consider this a commercial/ad post, since
we'd probably prefer not to make any more of these...:) )

The B was surprisingly decent for the shorter scale,
and the overall effect was very cool.

Cheers,
Martin
 

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I've an epiphone EB-1 bass it's not an short scale unfortunatly but it's a great bass, you can even screw out the endpin and srew in an large pin so you can play it like an upright. (do not know where to find those upricht screw in pins) I also got an chinese violin bass fro man unknow brand, In europe you can find dozens of el-cheapo chinese made violin basses of various brands.

I also have an solid body red glitter plastic eko 1100 OT 2 bass in an violin shape and started todat on a rebuilt of an orfeus east german made solid body violin bass.
 
#11
Keith Guitars said:
Hey,

We made this as a custom order for a Japanese customer
who collects violin basses.

It's a 32" scale 5-string with a piezo and a magnetic.
The Hofner-like tight string spacing was by request.

(Please don't consider this a commercial/ad post, since
we'd probably prefer not to make any more of these...:) )

The B was surprisingly decent for the shorter scale,
and the overall effect was very cool.

Cheers,
Martin
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That is sweet.
 
#12
cdef said:
Go here for a pretty comprehensive roundup of violin basses:

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I had no idea so many folks had built a viiolin body bass. I had seen the Veillette custom and that is just about the coolest bass I've ever seen....I'd DEFINITELY consider one of those!!!
The bass I was trying to find was the Duesenberg, which is still in production.
I'd like to find out who the small builder in texas is. I am pretty sure it's not Birdsong although I would seriously consider a birdsong if they made a violin body!
 
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dlmarquez said:
I had no idea so many folks had built a viiolin body bass. I had seen the Veillette custom and that is just about the coolest bass I've ever seen....I'd DEFINITELY consider one of those!!!
The bass I was trying to find was the Duesenberg, which is still in production.
I'd like to find out who the small builder in texas is. I am pretty sure it's not Birdsong although I would seriously consider a birdsong if they made a violin body!
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The guy in Texas that you are looking for is Bud LeCompte:

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Dirk McQuickley
 
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