Why do Basses sound better after it gets some cracks and then gets fixed? Is that part of aging? Is that part of mellowing out or am I just cracking up mentioning this?
(why pink? yuck..)
Experience and time combined loosens up a Bass. My
200 or so year old Italian Bass sounds mellower than my
88 year old Italian Bass and the older one has way more cracks.
I had two English Basses
side by
side both around 200 years old and the one with more cracks sounded better. Then I bought another one
almost 200 years old with even more cracks and it sounds even better than the other two.
Maybe it
is all it's cracked up to be, aye?
