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Old 01-20-2011, 10:35 AM
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Cool lol..

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Originally Posted by Jim McKinney View Post
Good Mornin', Ken . . .

It was suggested on another site (see link immediately below - post #6)
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=731905
that you might be interested with comments re:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-Old-RARE-Vi...t_26329wt_1061 - Scroll down for photos . . .

Soooo, . . . . any observations/comments? - please!

Thanks!
That is not a Bass of any sort as we know it today. In one Orchestra a guy had a Prescott Cello, not a Church bass but an actual Cello of which he did make a few. That by the way is not a Prescott but another Yankee maker. Perhaps by Crehore which I attributed it to when I first saw it on E-bay before it hit Talkbass but who cares? Most of these Church Basses are too big to convert to Cellos and not worth fixing to hang on the wall. There is a reason these are always in a state of disrepair and falling apart. They went out of date 150 years ago and no one needs them anymore!
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