copy of Franz Andreas

[Mark Kerestes]

Thanks!
I saw on your forum someone posted a question years ago about what looked like a similar bass but the label did not show "copy of".
I think I need to find a bass teacher before I spend too much time trying to learn on this thing. I thought the action was too high especially on the E string.
I posted some more pics.
Plywood is delaminating at edges, bung for end pin is not flush and tilted, neck looks to be epoxied to body. Comes with a bow.
It sounds like I am going to be storing my friends bass since he is in a skilled care facility and his wife is moving to an apartment in the same facility.

[Michael Cahill]

I sometimes read stories about youth orchestras here and abroad that make due with modest instruments in an effort to teach children to play music.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Mark Kerestes

Thanks!
I saw on your forum someone posted a question years ago about what looked like a similar bass but the label did not show "copy of".
I think I need to find a bass teacher before I spend too much time trying to learn on this thing. I thought the action was too high especially on the E string.
I posted some more pics.
Plywood is delaminating at edges, bung for end pin is not flush and tilted, neck looks to be epoxied to body. Comes with a bow.
It sounds like I am going to be storing my friends bass since he is in a skilled care facility and his wife is moving to an apartment in the same facility.

Ok, this bass would cost many times its value to fix professionally and return it to new-like condition as when made. I would not pay for a bass in this condition. The top is sunken in a bit as well from the look of the F hole E-side. It is literally a mess. Cheap made basses often do not hold up.

[John Cubbage]

I agree with what Mr. Smith has written about this bass.

The cost of repairs done properly would likely exceed the value of the instrument. If someone chose to fix the bass up themselves, upon completion, they would likely have found the experience and result to have been frustrating.

Someone may want the tuning gears, neck?, furniture?, and bridge adjusters, for parts.

Just my opinion.

-Dr. C.