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Originally Posted by Frank Larouche
So I tried this bass this afternoon and the bass sound very very good even if it's been 15 years or so since nobody plays it. The strings were too high to play easily but the sound was fantastic. I played maybe a dozen of bass since I start to search and this is the best one of them all easily! Pizz the sound is really big and full of volume, even in all the register and with the bow it is something to say the least. The arco tone is the best one I have ever had. The bass is in good shape, the weird cracks are only scratches in the finish.
It is weird that Mr. Senni sees it as a french bass because the tuner are are french style like the Vuillaume school and the jacquet-gand on this site. It is old for sure and the appraiser tought so too (Forget in Montreal).
The finish is not that shiny in person, the pictures were misleading. The owner had the bass appreased and repaired for 4k in 2003 from a very good luthier in montreal so it seem a real bargain at that price.
Did I mention it sound fantastic!!
Do you think it not reasonnable for someone to take a loan for a instrument knowing that I'm a student for now but that i finish my degree in december?
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Can you show me the Scroll/pegbox, all 4 sides and better pics of the back button area. You are asking for information with less than the needed pictures to at lease take a good guess. Yes, the bass looks french but do you see tuners exactly as I do? Are the tuners on the bass french/french or German made french style copies? Would you know the difference? I would, more than likely.
We are talking here partially blind. You have this on Talkbass as well with some strange opinions from the gallery of non-experts.
Show us more of the bass and maybe we can ID it better. I don't see that label as mating the bass in style or age. Has anyone here ever seen a Mathius Neuner bass withe a round back? There were so many makers in Mittenwald and all over Germany in the past 150 years, makers and shops and cottage industry suppliers that it gets very hard to ID anything exactly from Germany sometimes. I do not see this bass as 19th century German/Mittenwald. Neiner then was Neuner & Hornsteiner but this maker did use his fathers labels as well. The no.94 is the house number, not the instrument so only the date needs changing and many of the same date were produced for the trade, Violins thru basses. All one has to do to put that label in that bass is copy one from a book, white out the date, copy it again on some paper, throw it in your jeans and wash them in the laundry, dry them, iron it, rub it in some dirt, write a date in and glue it in the bass. There, you have an old looking label. But, it doesn't match the bass or style being made in that period. Circle gets the square!