german or french or....

[Adrian Levi]

Originally Posted by Calvin Marks

Adrian,

G Veffer? Is his first name Greg? If so, that's my brother in law...What kind of job is he doing for you?

Oi, well if it's that same bass, it had a slew of problems with it. The top was/is sinking in. It sounded really muted because it was completely re-varnished over 4 times in 2 years...Why? I don't know. Also, a handle (wooden dowel) was drilled into the side of the bass on the c-bout for "ease of carrying". Such things should never be done to an instrument.

Yep your brother in law doing a cctv installation for me !

Its not the bass in the pic I dont think as I bought it off an orchestral player that had it for almost 4 years , prior to that I know that it had a fairly visible crack in the top repaired,I dont see that in your pic....but Im pretty sure that the aforementioned varnisher got to it at some time !
BTW I hear he is in the process of stripping a 1700's Antonio Gagliano bass as the original finish is now hundreds of years old and needs to be urgently 'updated' before it gets any older

[Calvin Marks]

Originally Posted by Adrian Levi

Yep your brother in law doing a cctv installation for me !

Its not the bass in the pic I dont think as I bought it off an orchestral player that had it for almost 4 years , prior to that I know that it had a fairly visible crack in the top repaired,I dont see that in your pic....but Im pretty sure that the aforementioned varnisher got to it at some time !
BTW I hear he is in the process of stripping a 1700's Antonio Gagliano bass as the original finish is now hundreds of years old and needs to be urgently 'updated' before it gets any older

A Gagliano in South Africa?! I think the nicest instrument in the whole country was Nico Krueger's Hawk's bass, though I don't know what the guys in Cape Town are using.