Forum: Modern Handmade Basses
12-23-2008, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 43,187
beautiful
Matthew that's a beautiful job, I particularly liked it that you copied the F's. And I like the reddish varnish.
You've inspried me brother. My next bass will be cornerless. I think I'm going...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
12-21-2008, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 15,150
more on wood
Ken, thanks for your comments.
Regarding English wood I just read a book on the battle of Trafalgar and it contained a lot of information on the techniques and woods used in ship building by the...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
12-21-2008, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 42,822
Italian
There are "Italian" violin family instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries that originated in Germany, and today there are a fair number of "Italian" violins that originally came from China.
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
12-19-2008, 07:24 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 42,822
I'll second that
Arnold, I'm in total agreement. They are not only unnecessary, they're ugly to boot.
I'd be suspicious of the origin of any 'Italian' bass with outside linings.
(edit). But then I'm...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
12-07-2008, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 15,150
Carpathian
Those mountains run through the region of Bosnia. And that is where he supposedly got it.
A few years ago some wood cutters were at the VSA and had various woods from all over the world, and...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
12-06-2008, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 15,150
and maple
Sacconi claims that Stradivari thought that Carpathian Mountain maple was better tone wood and that Stradivari used it when he could. I'm not sure how he would know that? Some of my wood guys who...
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Forum: Double Bass Talk in General
12-01-2008, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 28,488
guts and steel
When I first started playing, my teacher George Cass, had me set up my bass with Artone guts on the D and G and Lycon steel strings on the E and A. This was in the early 70s, but George was a bassist...
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Forum: Double Bass Talk in General
12-01-2008, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 28,488
good vibrations
This phenomenom may be the result of the bass range. Since we are playing low notes they have a hugh wave curve. I think the vibration is breaking out in front of us, so the bass is heard louder a...
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Forum: Jazz Corner
11-17-2008, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 96,625
Don Thompson
I hate Don Thompson. Any guy who plays bass like that and says he really doesn't like playing bass just kills me. I'd die to play like Don Thompson. I'd ever go to Canada.
And of course I...
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Forum: Jazz Corner
11-17-2008, 12:53 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 48,485
Richard Davis
Richard is still teaching at Madison. He would have turned 77, I think, this last spring. Every year on Good Friday and Saturday he has the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bass Players. It is the...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-13-2008, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,069
how long?
Arnold,
I just reread your post. How the hell do you know that I've been around basses longer than you?
Back in a minute, gotta warm up the Hudson.
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-13-2008, 05:40 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 21,395
size
My ribs usually approach nine inches at the bottom. Wouldn't I need a blanket at least that wide?
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Forum: Italian Bass School
11-13-2008, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 189
Views: 414,524
linings
Are your linings wider than normal?
That's going to be a nice bass. What do you use for varnish and sealer or ground?
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Forum: German/Czech Shop Basses
11-13-2008, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 14,027
size
The question I have is: is a 1/2 size the right size for you. If not it's a pass.
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-13-2008, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 97,016
The ones I kept
These are the books I brought to Mexico with me:
Violin Restoration, Weishaar and Shipman
Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, Carlo Chiesa et al
Useful Measurements for Violin Makers, Strobel
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-12-2008, 05:14 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 20,061
right on
Ken, you are probably right on. Arnold and I were discussing arching in another thread and after I posted my thoughts I reflected on the Italian basses I've seen. To begin with in my early bass...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-12-2008, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 20,061
Elgar's books
I don't know how many times I've read over the years that the attributions in Elgar's books on the double bass are not accurate. Has anyone compiled a corrected attribution list? It's another...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-12-2008, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 15,584
arching
My observation is that Italian arching usually rises fairly quickly from the edges. On the tops it tends to level off at about where the tailpiece starts and runs fairly flat to under the fingerboard...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-12-2008, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,069
tweak
Thank you for your input Arnold. All I've done so far is a little tweaking to basses pretty much as you described above. I know I won't make any radical changes. I think I'm going to have to get...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-09-2008, 01:36 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 64,417
What do you want in a bass ?
Since I'm getting no response on my thread, "Have You Designed Your Own Bass", let me turn it around to you as players.
What do you want in a bass? I know everyone wants great sound, but what do...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-08-2008, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 14,784
soundpost making
Why make one?
Bob Branstetter said on that other forum that he had made some. I buy mine and don't feel a need to cut my own.
A number of years ago I saw the guy on the Woodwright shop make...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-08-2008, 03:13 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 97,016
I wish
Ken,
I'm a bit envious of your collection. I gave mine away when I moved to Mexico. Now that I'm looking at moving back I may start my collection all over again. I had been collecting books since...
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Forum: Luthier's Corner
11-08-2008, 01:15 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,069
Have you designed your own bass?
I've always said that the good thing about making basses is that you don't have to make the same one over and over, but the bad thing is that no one has the same idea of what a bass should be.
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Forum: New Forum Member Introductions
11-08-2008, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,181
We're not in Kansas Anymore
We ended up in Mexico by taking a left at Denver.
I've been in Mexico for two years. My wife and I inherited the gypsy gene, I guess. We like it here but we're ready to go back. We will be going...
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Forum: Italian Bass School
11-06-2008, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 189
Views: 414,524
Stradivari
Good input, Arnold. Stradivari, according to Saconni, used linen strips in his cellos. He said in the cellos where they had not been removed those cellos still had no rib cracks.
(Edit) I've been...
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